Mickleton is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6088°, -2.0557°.

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Mickleton

Mickleton in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Mickleton is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Mickleton is a village and civil parish in Teesdale, County Durham, England, situated 8.5 miles (13.7 km) north west of Barnard Castle. Lying within the historic boundaries of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the village along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District has been administered with County Durham since 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972

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In 1086, the village was recorded in the Domesday Book, with a population of 37 households. In 1870-72 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Mickleton as:<blockquote>"a township in Romald-Kirk parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the Tees river and Tees Valley railway, 7¼ miles NW of Barnard-Castle. It has a post office under Darlington, a r. station, a chapel of ease, chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a free school. Acres, 4,890. Real property, £3,169. Pop., 688. Houses, 122. Most of the surface is high moorland.</blockquote> A railway station on the Tees Valley Railway served the village between 1868 and 1964. Mickleton is situated by the meeting…

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