MIDDELTON, a market-town of the county of Lancaster, in the hundred of Salford, 190 miles from London and seven from Manchester, on the road to Rochdale. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the different branches of the cotton manufacture. It is a parish of itself, and has a market, which is held on Saturday. The inhabitants of the town were, in 1801, 3265; in 1811, 4422; in 1821, 5809; and in 1831, 6903; but at the last census the whole parish, which comprises also seven other chapellies or townships, contained 14,370 inhabitants.