BADDOW (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of CHELMSFORD, county of ESSEX, If mile (S. B.) from Chelmsford, containing 1603 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £18. 6. 8., and in the patronage of A. Bullen, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary; its tower is covered with ivy. The village is very pleasantly situated, and is inhabited by several highly respectable families. A school for the instruction of twenty children is endowed with -£20 per annum, aided by a bequest of £50 from Jasper JefFerey, in 1731: there is also an endowed school for the children of dissenters, and there are nine almshouses.