Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MIDDLE

MIDDLE, a hamlet in Ystradyfodwg parish, Glamorgan; 8½ miles SW of Merthyr-Tydvil. Real property, £6,818; of which £3,950 are in mines, and £35 in quarries. Pop. in 1851,247; in 1861,1,203. Houses, 226. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of coalmining.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Rhondda AP/CP       Glamorgan AncC
Place: Middle

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