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Great Addington, Northamptonshire

Historical Description

Addington, Great, a parish in Northamptonshire, on the river Nen, near Ringstead station on the L. & N.W.R., 4½ miles SW of Thrapston. It has a post office under Thrap-ston, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Woodford. Acreage, 1261; population, 299. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is a small but ancient building containing some interesting tombs and monuments.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorthamptonshire 
Ecclesiastical parishAddington All Saints 
HundredHuxloe 
Poor Law unionThrapston 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The register of baptisms dates from the year 1694; marriages, 1692; burials, 1693; and contains a list of the Rectors from the year 1238.

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.


Churches

Church of England

All Saints (parish church)

The church of All Saints is a small and apparently very ancient structure, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, north and south aisles, north chapel with vestry, south porch entering through a Norman arch, and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: in a niche in the wall of the north chapel is a monument of the 16th century with recumbent effigy of alabaster in armour to Henry De Vere esq.; in the opposite wall of the chapel is a piscina and within the communion rails a tomb, with a fine brass effigy and inscription to John Bloxham, d. 1519.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Great Addington from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Great Addington are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online:

DistrictEast Northamptonshire
CountyNorthamptonshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtNN14
Post TownKettering

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