Description
Addington, a parish in the county of Buckingham, on a tributary of the Ouse, 1 3/4 mile WNW of Winslow station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Winslow, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1303; population, 100. Addington Manor, the property of Lord Addington, is a fine modern residence, standing in a park of 300 acres. Addington House, a residence of Lord Addington, also stands in the park. Gallows Gap was a place of feudal capital punishment by the ancient proprietors, the Moulines. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; value, £200. Patron, Lord Addington. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
