WIDFORD, a parish in the hundred of CHELMSFORD,
county of ESSEX, 1 mile (S. W.) from Chelmsford,
containing 118 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and
diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £8.
W. Harding, Esq. was patron in 1814. The church,
dedicated to St. Maiy, is partly in the early, and partly
in the decorated, style of English architecture; it is
situated on the west side of the high road from London
to Chelmsford.