RODDEN, a parish in the hundred of FROME,
county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Frome, containing
272 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and
Wells, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £600
royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in
the patronage of Lord Heytesbury. The church was
built at the expense of the parishioners, about 1640.