Great Addington
Great Addington is a small village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, on the west bank of the River Nene. It lies about 5 miles east of Kettering and has around 100 households. At the 2011 census the parish population (including Slipton) was 327.
The village has a school, All Saints Church, a manor house, a village hall, a pub called the Hare & Hounds, playing fields and homes. There is a friendly rivalry with the neighbouring village of Little Addington.
The name Great Addington means a farm or settlement connected with someone named Eadda or Aeddi.
There is evidence of a long history in the area, with Celtic, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon settlements found within the parish. Archaeology has revealed Iron Age and Roman sites, a possible trackway and enclosures, and an Anglo-Saxon burial site can be traced to the hillside area near the village. Tumuli and other finds have come to light over the years, giving a picture of a landscape used and lived in for many centuries.
The parish covers about 500 hectares and runs west from the River Nene, on rising ground between roughly 120 and 300 feet above sea level. The ground near the river sits on Boulder Clay, while higher ground shows limestone, clay and sand. Ridge-and-furrow fields from earlier enclosures still survive around the village.
The common fields were enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1803, and traces of earlier field boundaries and field systems can still be seen in the landscape. Nearby places include Little Addington, Woodford, Ringstead, Denford, Irthlingborough, Raunds, Thrapston, Higham Ferrers, Kettering, Chelveston, Wellingborough and Stanwick.
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