MICKLETON township consists of two streets, Upper and Lower, and is in Teesdale union; the former, on the high road, is about half a mile long, and 2 miles south from Middleton-in-Teesdale. The houses are chiefly occupied by farmers and cottagers, most of the latter being employed at the quarries in the neighbourhood. Here is a station on the Barnard Castle and Middleton (Tees Valley) branch of the North Eastern railway, which is carried over the river Lune and the high road on a handsome stone viaduct of five arches. The church of St. Mary Magdalene is an iron structure, seating 150 persons, and there is also a church institute and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who is lord of the manor, and Messrs. George Tam, William C. G. Dent, William Dent and J. C. Longstaff are the principal landowners. The area of the parish is 4,734 acres of land, the greater portion of which is a high moorland tract, extending along the south side of Lunedale to the borders of Westmorland, and 46 of water; rateable value, £3,792; the population in 1911 was 566.

Public Elementary school (mixed), for 134 children; average attendance, 73.