MIDDLETON

(origin: Local) From Middleton, a small town in Dorsetshire, England--the middle town.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

MIDDLETON. 'The middle tun' or enclosure — a very common name of jlaces. The Gazetteer mentions more than thirty parishes, chapelries, and townships, so called in S. Britain; but there are many minor localities and estates of this name (frequently several in a single county), and some of these are contra-ctcd to Milton.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.