Description
Whaddon, a parish in Cambridgeshire, 2 1/2 miles W of Meldreth station on the G.N.R., and 4 N of Royston. It has a post office under Royston; money order and telegraph office, Bassingbourn. Acreage, 1515; population, 341. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Hardwicke. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £200 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is an edifice of stone and flint, and was restored in 1869. The tower was restored, and the upper part rebuilt, in 1894.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
