Addington, Buckinghamshire

Addington, Buckinghamshire

infobox UK place

country = England
latitude=51.95095
longitude=-0.92177
official_name= Addington
population = 145 [ [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792007&c=Addington&d=16&e=15&g=424507&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1216594238312&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census] ]
shire_district= Aylesbury Vale
shire_county = Buckinghamshire
region= South East England

post_town= BUCKINGHAM
postcode_district = MK18
postcode_area= MK
dial_code= 01296
os_grid_reference= SP742286
constituency_westminster= Buckingham

Addington is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England, about convert|2|mi|1|lk=on west of Winslow and convert|3|mi|1 south east of Buckingham. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 145.

First recorded as "Edintone" in the Domesday Book of 1086, its name means "Eadda's Estate". Nearby Adstock is named after the same person. The manor at that time was in the possession of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux.

A notable building in the village is the Mansion House, which is a 19th century building on the site of the much older manor. The former manor house was used twice during the English Civil War as the national headquarters of the Parliamentarian forces.

During the Second World War from 1940 to 1945 Addington House was the residence of the Cigna, Moravec, Strankmuller and Tauer families of the Czechoslovak Military Intelligence staff under Colonel František Moravec, who planned the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš resided at The Abbey in nearby Aston Abbotts.

The parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. The church has 3 bells (the oldest dating as far back as 1666) in the church hung for English change ringing and one sanctus bell hung for chiming.

References

* Neil Rees "The Secret History of The Czech Connection – The Czechoslovak Government in Exile in London and Buckinghamshire" compiled by Neil Rees, England, 2005. ISBN 0-9550883-0-5

External links

* [http://www.czechsinexile.org/ Czechoslovak Government in Exile Research Society]


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