GIDDING (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 5 miles
(S.W.) from Stilton, containing 496 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £8. 5. 2., and in the patronage of Lord
Sondes. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, contains
a curious bason for holy water, resembling a Norman
capital, A salary is paid by Lord Sondes to a master
for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, to twenty
poor boys.