ARDINGTON, a parish in the hundred of WANTAGE,
county of BERKS, 2 miles (E.) from Wantage,
containing 403 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of
Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £8. 7. 9., endowed
with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford.
The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The-
Roman Iknield-street passes through this parish, which
is also intersected by the Wilts and Berks canal.