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Middleton Station, Middleton
Middleton Station
Middleton-on-Lune Station
site name:-   Low Gill and Ingleton branch railway
civil parish:-   Middleton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   SD62708823
1Km square:-   SD6288
10Km square:-   SD68
SummaryText:-   Opened as Middleton (Westmorland) Station, with the railway 1861; renamed Middleton-on-Lune 1926; closed 1931.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 40) 
placename:-  Middleton Station
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Middleton Station"

evidence:-   probably old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
image
PST2SD68.jpg
station on railway 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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