Middlestown
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Middlestown
Wakefield Midle Shitlington (1325), Myddleston (1551). A contracted form of ‘Middle Shitlington’ (now Sitlington), which is Schelintone (1086) (DB), ‘estate associated with a man called *Scyttel’, OE pers. name + -ing- + tūn.
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Middlestown is a small village in West Yorkshire, England, in the civil parish of Sitlington. The villages of Middlestown, Netherton, Overton and Midgley are built around and overlook the Coxley Valley.
There are two Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves within the boundaries and the area is also home to the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Both the M1 and M62 are a few minutes drive away.
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