Waddington, Yorkshire, England. Further historical information.

WADDINGTON

WADDINGTON, in the parish of Great Mitton, west division of Staincliffe, liberty of Bowland; 8½ miles SW. of Gisburn, 14 from Blackburn, (Lanc.) 16 from Burnley, (ditto) 20 from Skipton. Pop. 687. The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Helen. Patron, T.L. Parker, Esq.

This place, at the time of Domesday, was a parcel of the Terra Rogeri Pictaviensis. In the time of Edward I. it appears to have been in the possession of the Tempests, in which family it continued till the reign of Charles I. Waddington Hall, though constructed of strong old masonry, has nearly lost all appearances of antiquity. --Whitaker's Whalley.

Here is a Hospital, founded in 1701, by Robert Parker, for ten widows; attached to which, is an oratory for divine worship, for which the founder ordered prayers to be read daily, morning and evening. In 1709, the rental of the estate belonging to this Hospital, was £66. 8s. In 1799, it amounted to £254. instead of ten; there were then fifteen widows. The pious founder died early in life, and was buried in the church yard of Waddington.

An Alms House was founded here in 1690, for twenty poor people of the township of Aighton, Bailey, Chidsley, Great Mitton, Wismall, and Ribchester; and endowed with £6. 13s. 4d. per month, and a suit of clothes to each, every year.