BIDDESTONE (ST-NICHOLAS-and-ST-PETER),
a parish in the hundred of CHIPPENHAM, county of
WILTS, 4 miles (W.) from Chippenham, containing 414
inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, rated
in the king's books at £2. 18. 4., and in the patronage
of the Warden and Fellows of Winchester College.
The church contains a monument to the memory of
Edmund Smith, A.M., a poet of some repute, who
died in this neighbourhood in 1709.