PUDDINGTON, a parish in the hundred of WILLEY,
county of BEDFORD, 5 miles (N. by W.) from
Harrold, containing 581 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£7 6. 8., endowed with £200 parliamentary grant.
R. Orlebar, Esq. was patron in 1801. The church, dedicated
to St. Mary, contains several ancient monuments,
the principal of which is erected to the memory of General
Livesay. The manufacture of thread-lace is carried
on here. There is a petrifying spring in the parish;
and small shells of the ostroites, belemnitee, and turbinitse
species are found imbedded in the clay and gravel
pits. Canary birds in a wild state are frequently met
with in the neighbourhood.