BIDDENHAM:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.
[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831]
(unless otherwise stated)
"BIDDENHAM, a parish in the hundred of WILLEY, county of BEDFORD, 2¾ miles (north-west)
from Bedford, containing 393 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in
the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£8, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of Viscount Hampden. The church is dedicated to St. James."
[Description(s) transcribed by Martin Edwards ©2003 and later edited by Colin Hinson ©2013]
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