CHEDDINGTON, a parish in the district of Leighton-Buzzard and county of Buckingham; on the North-western railway, at the junction of the Aylesbury branch, 4¼ miles S by E of Leighton-Buzzard. It includes part of Seabrook hamlet; and it has a station on the railway, and a post office under Tring. Acres, 1, 398. Real property, £2, 486. Pop., 628. Houses, 119. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £233.* Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is perpendicular English; consists of nave and chancel, with a square tower; and has a carved open pulpit, and a decorated octagonal font. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £12.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))