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Liddington (All Saints)

LIDDINGTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Highworth and Swindon, hundred of Kingsbridge, Swindon and N. divisions of Wilts, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Swindon; containing, with the tything of Coate, 454 inhabitants. The parish comprises by measurement 2736 acres, and is traversed by the road from London to Newbury and Hungerford: there are several chalk-quarries. The living is a discharged vicarage, with a sinecure rectory, the former valued in the king's books at £14, and the latter at £17; the Duke of Marlborough presents to the rectory, and the Rector to the vicarage. The tithes were partly commuted for land under an act of inclosure, in 1776; and a commutation has taken place under the recent Tithe act, for a rent-charge of £221: the glebe contains 60 acres, and there is an excellent house, built by the vicar in 1833. The church is very ancient, with a tower, and has a roof of timber-frame work. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. In this parish, romantically situated in a dell, and encompassed by a moat, is an old mansion forming an interesting specimen of the Elizabethan style; on Beacon Hill was a large circular work, called Liddington Castle.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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