DODDINGTON, a parish in the northern division
of the hundred of WITCHFORD-ISLE-of-ELY, county of
CAMBRIDGE, 4 miles (S. by W.) from March, comprising
the chapelries of Benwick and Marsh, and the hamlet of
Wimblington, and containing 5899 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the
Bishop of Ely, and in the patronage of Sir H. Peyton,
Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The sum
of £500, given in 1719, by Lionel Walden, Esq., a native
of the parish, for the erection of a free school,
having for many years remained unappropriated, has
accumulated to £1800 three per cents., and £500 four
per cents., and a school has been recently established,
the master of which has a salary of £40 per annum
and a house.