Description
Middlestone, a township in Morrington parish, Durham, 3: miles ENE of Bishop Auckland, and 1 1/2 mile from Coun-don station on the N.E.R. The township includes the hamlet of Leasingthome, which has a post office under Bishop Auckland; money order and telegraph office, Coundon. Acreage, 893; population, 1941. The Dean and Chapter of Durham are lords of the manor. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, and also a coal mine.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
