BIDDULPH, a parish in the northern division of the
hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, 3 miles
(S. E. by S.) from Congleton, containing 1666 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, rated in the king's books at £4. 9. 8., endowed
with £400 private benefaction, £200 royal
bounty, and & QOO parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of J. Bateman, Esq. The church is dedicated
to St. Lawrence. On Biddulph moor there is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The parish contains
collieries, manufactories for cotton and earthenware,
and iron-works. It is in the honour of Tutbury,
duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a
pourt of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for
the recovery of debts under 40s. Here is a school with
an endowment of about £12 per annum.