WHADDON, a parish in the hundred of MELKSHAM,
county of WILTS, 2 miles (N. B. by N.) from
Trowbridge, containing 63 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £8. 4. 4., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the joint patronage of the Lords of the
Manor. The river Avon, and the Kennet and Avon
canal, pass through the parish.