Middleton is a scattered settlement in
Shropshire
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with a chapel (Holy Trinity)
[A Church Near You]
Middleton-in-Chirbury and a former schoolhouse. It was once much more populated but went into decline once mining ended in the area. It is situated in the
civil parish
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of
Chirbury with Brompton
Chirbury () is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Chirbury with Brompton, in the Shropshire district, in west Shropshire, England. It is situated in the Vale of Montgomery, close to the Wales–England border ( at its nea ...
, in the west of the county.
Middleton is a parish
ward
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within that parish, returning 3 councillors.
South Shropshire Parishes Order 1987
Historically it was a township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
of the hundred of Chirbury. The ecclesiastical parish
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is known as Middleton-in-Chirbury.[
To the north is the hamlet of Rorrington, to the south the small village of Priestweston, both also in the parish of Chirbury with Brompton.
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See also
* Listed buildings in Chirbury with Brompton
References
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Villages in Shropshire