CLIDDESDEN, a parish in the hundred of BASINGSTOKE,
Basingstoke division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
If mile (S. by W.) from Basingstoke, containing
264 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, united
to that of Farleigh-Wallop, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at
"£10.16.3. There is a school for the instruction of poor
children, endowed -by Mrs. Ann Dorrington with £ 10
per annum, to which the Earl of Portsmouth gave an
additional sum of £10 per annum, with a house for a
schoolmistress.