TADDINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of BAKEWELL,
hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, 3
miles (S. S. w.) from Tideswell, containing, with the
township of Priestcliffe, 463 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean
and Chapter of Lichfield, endowed with £800 royal
bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Vicar of Bakewell. The chapel, dedicated
to St. Michael, is fast going to decay: near it is the
mutilated shaft of an ancient cross. There is a place
of worship for Baptists. The Rev. Roger Wilkson, in
1714, bequeathed lands, now producing £84 per annum,
for the education of all children of the Wilkson family,
and ten others, by a schoolmaster bearing his name.
Twelve poor children are also taught in another school,
erected by subscription in 1805, and supported with
a rent-charge of £15, the bequest of Michael White in
1798. Taddington is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy
of Lancaster, aud within the jurisdiction of a court, of
pleas held at Chapel en le Frith, for the recovery of
debts under 40s.