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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northamptonshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Addington All Saints | |
Hundred | Huxloe | |
Poor Law union | Thrapston |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Addington, Great (All Saints))
- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914
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:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online: