WHADDON, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"WHADDON, a parish in the middle division of Dudstone hundred, county Gloucester, 3 miles S.W. of Gloucester, and 5 N.W. of Stroud. The village is situated on the road from Stroud to Gloucester. The Great Western and Midland railways pass through the parish, but have no station. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, united with part of Brookthorpe. The church, dedicated to St. Margaret, was restored in 1855, with the exception of the chancel, which belongs to the impropriator."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]