BIDDLESDON, a parish in the hundred of BUCKINGHAM, and county
of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (N. B. by E.) from Brackley,
containing 175 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese
of Lincoln, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Mrs.
Verney. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. An
abbey of Cistercian monks was founded here in 1147,
the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £ 142.1. 3.
In 1315, Edward II. granted to the convent a market
on Monday, and a fair on St. Margaret's day.