MIDDLEWICH  , an

urban district in the Northwich parliamentary division of Cheshire, England, 166 m . N.W. of London, II on the London & North Western railway . Pop . (1900, 4669 . It lies in open country near the river Dane, having water communications by the Trent and Mersey canal, and a branch giving access to the Shropshire Union canal . The church of St Michael and All Angels is of various periods and contains numerous monuments . In the streets not a few old buildings remain, making for picturesqueness, and a number of the fine timbered houses in which Cheshire abounds are seen in the immediate neighbourhood . Middlewich shares in the salt industry common to several towns, such as Northwich and Winsford, in this part of the county; there are also chemical works and a manufacture of condensed milk .