diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 16c2058b8..58ae037ee 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Jens Timmerman
 Jerome Leclanche
 Jesse Gibbs
 Jim Graham
+John Byrne
 Jonas Nygaard Pedersen
 Jonathan Steffan
 Jordi Sanchez
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 292300ce2..93176fe4b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ## [unreleased]
 
 ### Added
+* #1185 Add middleware for adding access token to request
 * #1273 Add caching of loading of OIDC private key.
 * #1285 Add post_logout_redirect_uris field in application views.
 
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/tutorial_03.rst b/docs/tutorial/tutorial_03.rst
index 09486c3d6..ef5d57969 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/tutorial_03.rst
+++ b/docs/tutorial/tutorial_03.rst
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ will not try to get user from the session.
 If you use AuthenticationMiddleware, be sure it appears before OAuth2TokenMiddleware.
 However AuthenticationMiddleware is NOT required for using django-oauth-toolkit.
 
+Note, `OAuth2TokenMiddleware` adds the user to the request object. There is also an optional `OAuth2ExtraTokenMiddleware` that adds the `Token` to the request. This makes it convenient to access the `Application` object within your views. To use it just add `oauth2_provider.middleware.OAuth2ExtraTokenMiddleware` to the `MIDDLEWARE` setting.
+
 Protect your view
 -----------------
 The authentication backend will run smoothly with, for example, `login_required` decorators, so
diff --git a/oauth2_provider/middleware.py b/oauth2_provider/middleware.py
index 17ba6c35f..28bd968f8 100644
--- a/oauth2_provider/middleware.py
+++ b/oauth2_provider/middleware.py
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
+import logging
+
 from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
 from django.utils.cache import patch_vary_headers
 
+from oauth2_provider.models import AccessToken
+
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class OAuth2TokenMiddleware:
     """
@@ -36,3 +43,20 @@ def __call__(self, request):
         response = self.get_response(request)
         patch_vary_headers(response, ("Authorization",))
         return response
+
+
+class OAuth2ExtraTokenMiddleware:
+    def __init__(self, get_response):
+        self.get_response = get_response
+
+    def __call__(self, request):
+        authheader = request.META.get("HTTP_AUTHORIZATION", "")
+        if authheader.startswith("Bearer"):
+            tokenstring = authheader.split()[1]
+            try:
+                token = AccessToken.objects.get(token=tokenstring)
+                request.access_token = token
+            except AccessToken.DoesNotExist as e:
+                log.exception(e)
+        response = self.get_response(request)
+        return response
diff --git a/tests/test_auth_backends.py b/tests/test_auth_backends.py
index 8eeb8ef12..6b958ecb0 100644
--- a/tests/test_auth_backends.py
+++ b/tests/test_auth_backends.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from django.utils.timezone import now, timedelta
 
 from oauth2_provider.backends import OAuth2Backend
-from oauth2_provider.middleware import OAuth2TokenMiddleware
+from oauth2_provider.middleware import OAuth2ExtraTokenMiddleware, OAuth2TokenMiddleware
 from oauth2_provider.models import get_access_token_model, get_application_model
 
 
@@ -162,3 +162,62 @@ def test_middleware_response_header(self):
         response = m(request)
         self.assertIn("Vary", response)
         self.assertIn("Authorization", response["Vary"])
+
+
+@override_settings(
+    AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS=(
+        "oauth2_provider.backends.OAuth2Backend",
+        "django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend",
+    ),
+)
+@modify_settings(
+    MIDDLEWARE={
+        "append": "oauth2_provider.middleware.OAuth2TokenMiddleware",
+    }
+)
+class TestOAuth2ExtraTokenMiddleware(BaseTest):
+    def setUp(self):
+        super().setUp()
+        self.anon_user = AnonymousUser()
+
+    def dummy_get_response(self, request):
+        return HttpResponse()
+
+    def test_middleware_wrong_headers(self):
+        m = OAuth2ExtraTokenMiddleware(self.dummy_get_response)
+        request = self.factory.get("/a-resource")
+        m(request)
+        self.assertFalse(hasattr(request, "access_token"))
+        auth_headers = {
+            "HTTP_AUTHORIZATION": "Beerer " + "badstring",  # a Beer token for you!
+        }
+        request = self.factory.get("/a-resource", **auth_headers)
+        m(request)
+        self.assertFalse(hasattr(request, "access_token"))
+
+    def test_middleware_token_does_not_exist(self):
+        m = OAuth2ExtraTokenMiddleware(self.dummy_get_response)
+        auth_headers = {
+            "HTTP_AUTHORIZATION": "Bearer " + "badtokstr",
+        }
+        request = self.factory.get("/a-resource", **auth_headers)
+        m(request)
+        self.assertFalse(hasattr(request, "access_token"))
+
+    def test_middleware_success(self):
+        m = OAuth2ExtraTokenMiddleware(self.dummy_get_response)
+        auth_headers = {
+            "HTTP_AUTHORIZATION": "Bearer " + "tokstr",
+        }
+        request = self.factory.get("/a-resource", **auth_headers)
+        m(request)
+        self.assertEqual(request.access_token, self.token)
+
+    def test_middleware_response(self):
+        m = OAuth2ExtraTokenMiddleware(self.dummy_get_response)
+        auth_headers = {
+            "HTTP_AUTHORIZATION": "Bearer " + "tokstr",
+        }
+        request = self.factory.get("/a-resource", **auth_headers)
+        response = m(request)
+        self.assertIsInstance(response, HttpResponse)