Biddeston or Bidston, a parish—formerly two parishes, St Peter and St Nicholas—in Wilts, 2 1/2 miles N by W of Corsham railway station, and 4 W of Chippenham. The two parishes were amalgamated in 1884. It has a post office under Chippenham; money order and telegraph office, Yatton Keynell. The area is 1951 acres; population of the civil parish, 493; of the ecclesiastical, with Slaughterford, 613. The rectory of St Peter's and vicarage of St Nicholas are united with the vicarage of Slaughterford, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £130 with residence. Patron, Winchester College. The Church of St Peter was Perpendicular English, but has been taken down. The Church of St Nicholas is partly Norman, and has a picturesque bell-turret. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels. Edmund Smith, the translator of Longinus, and author of the tragedy of "Phaedra and Hippolytus," died in the parish, and his tomb was in St Nicholas Church.