Middleton Quernhow is a settlement and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

[1] North Yorkshire County Council estimated that the population of the parish was 60 in 2015.

[4] How or Howe, deriving from the Old Norse word haugr meaning a hill, is a common element in Yorkshire place name.

[6] The settlement is mentioned in the Domesday Book[7] as being a manor of 5 carucates, once held by Tor, but by 1086 was in the possession of Count Alan.

[10] One of the former occupants of The Old hall, Thomas Best, was a Member of Parliament for Ripon in the early 17th century.