This extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831"
GIDDING (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred of LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 5¾ miles (S.W. by S.) from Stilton, containing 64 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7.6.4, endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. John.