TADDINGTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of bakewell, hundred of High Peak, N. division of the county of derby, 3 ½ miles (S. S. W.) from Tideswell; containing, with the township of Priestcliffe, 499 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £87; patron, the Vicar of Bakewell; appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. 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. A school, erected in 1805, is supported by a rent-charge of £15, the bequest of Michael White, in 1798.
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