CUDDESDEN, a parish in the hundred of BULLINGTON, county of OXFORD, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from Oxford, comprising the chapelries of Denton and Wheatley, and the hamlet of Chippinghurst, and containing 1328 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, annexed to.the bishoprick of Oxford, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £17. 0. 5. The church is dedicated to All Saints. A school is endowed, by a bequest from Dr. Moss, a late bishop of Oxford, with £1500 three per cent, stock, for the education of one- hundred- and fifty poor children of Cuddesden, Wheatley, Denton, and Chippinghurst, the produce of which, with contributions, amounts to about £100 a year: twelve poor girls are also educated at the expense of the Bishop of Oxford, who has a palace here, which was rebuilt by Bishops Paul and Fell, the old palace, erected by Bishop Bancroft, having been burnt down, in 1644, to prevent its falling into the possession of the parliament.