Addingrove

Infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Addingrove
latitude= 51.795559
longitude= -1.038148
shire_district= Aylesbury Vale
shire_county= Buckinghamshire
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Buckingham
post_town= AYLESBURY
postcode_district= HP18
postcode_area= HP
dial_code= 01844
os_grid_reference= SP6611

Addingrove was a small hamlet between Oakley and Long Crendon, now only represented by a farm and a cottage. Its land was divided amongst the villages of Oakley, Brill and Chilton.

History

The name Addingrove means "Æddi's wood" - Æddi (or Eddius Stephanus) was the biographer of Saint Wilfrid. In the Domesday Book of 1086, the manor of Eddingrove was held by Ulward, a man of Queen Edith, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and became part of the lands of Walter Giffard and was then assessed at three and a half hides.

The Empress Maud granted Oakley church in about 1142, along with its chapels of Brill, Boarstall and Addingrove, to the monks of St Frideswide's Priory, in Oxford. In the late 18th century Addingrove was still a hamlet in the parish of Oakley, which had a chapel that had been "suffered to fall to ruin" [1806 Magna Brittania cited at [http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Oakley/Index.html Genuki] ]

Why Addingrove failed as a village is subject to conjecture. However, its original location is now a quarter of a mile east of the present Addingrove Farm and very little remains of the original buildings.

External links

* [http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=466500&y=211500&z=5&sv=466500,211500&st=4&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&ax=466500&ay=211500 Map showing location of Addingrove at streetmap.co.uk]

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