WHADDON, a village, a township, and a parish, in Winslow district, Bucks. The village stands 3½ miles N by E of Swanbourne r. station, and 4½ S by E of Stony-Stratford; was once a market-town: gives the title of Baron to the Duke of Buckingham; and has a post-office under Stony-Stratford. The township comprises 2,300 acres. Real property, £3,406. Pop., 493. Houses, 104. The parish includes Nash hamlet, and comprises 3,730 acres. Pop., 955. Houses, 207. The manor belonged to the Giffords; passed to the Pigots, the Greys, the Dukes of Buckingham, the Willises, and the Selbys; and, with W. Hall, belongs now to W. S. Lowndes, Esq. W. Chase is famous for its fox covers, and gives name to a hunt. A Benedictine priory was founded in the time of Henry III., by R. Martell, at Snelshall. Numerous coins of Cunobelin or Cymbeline, were found in 1849, in W. Chase. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £300. Patron, W. S. Lowndes, Esq. The church is ancient. The rectory of Nash is a separate charge. There are Independent and Baptist chapels, national schools, alms houses, and other charities £20. Bishop Cox, who died in 1581, was a native.

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