HARDENHUISH, a parish in the hundred of CHIPPENHAM, county of WILTS, Ij mile (N. W.) from Chippenham, containing 70 inhabitants. The living is a rectory not in charge, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, and in the patronage of T. Clutterbuck, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. Christopher Anstey, Esq., author of the New Bath Guide, and of several miscellaneous poems, died here in 1805.