| Addingrove | |
|---|---|
 Addingrove Farm | |
  Addingrove Location withinBuckinghamshire | |
| OS grid reference | SP666110 |
| Civil parish | |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Aylesbury |
| Postcode district | HP18 |
| Dialling code | 01844 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Buckinghamshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Oakley Parish Council |
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Addingrove is a formerhamlet in Buckinghamshire, about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of themarket town ofThame in neighbouringOxfordshire. The settlement is on theB4011 road betweenOakley andLong Crendon.
The largelydepopulated former settlement now consists of only Addingrove Farm and a cottage. It is in thecivil parish ofOakley.
Thetoponym Addingrove is derived from theOld English for "Æddi's wood".[1] From the 11th to the 15th centuries it evolved through the formsEddingrave,Adegrave andAdingrave before reaching its present form.[2]
TheDomesday Book of 1086 records that Ulward, a man ofQueen Edith, themanor ofEddingrave in the reign ofEdward the Confessor, but that after theNorman conquest of England it was granted toWalter Giffard and assessed at three and a halfhides.[2] Addingrove remained part of theHonour until 1256, when Giffard's descendant Joan Marshal became married toWilliam de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke.[2] After the death ofAymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke in 1324, Addingrove passed to William's granddaughterElizabeth de Comyn.[2] It then passed by Elizabeth's second marriage toRichard Talbot, 2nd Baron Talbot.[2] Talbot also held the manor of Pollicott inAshendon.[2] When Gilbert Talbot, 5th Baron Talbot died in 1419 he left the manors of Pollicott and Addingrove to his widow Beatrice,[2] who was baroness in her own right until her death in 1421. The two manors were again recorded together in 1432 and 1446, but no subsequent records are known.[2]
Walter Giffard'smesne lord was Hugh de Bolebec, whose heirs were theEarls of Oxford.[2] The mesne lordshire of Addingrove followed that ofWhitchurch until 1635.[2]
By 1173 the sub-tenants of the Earls of Oxford were a family called Morel.[2] In 1257 John Morel granted parts of Oakley and Addingrove to John FitzNeil, who then bought the remainder of the manorial tenure from Morel's heirs.[2] Thereafter the tenancy of Addingrove was linked with that ofBoarstall until 1563.[2] From 1554 the farm was let to John Croke ofChilton.[2] Croke left the tenancy to his son, also John Dormer, who in 1607 was renting the farm fromSir John Dormer ofDorton.[2] Dormer left Addingrove to his son Sir Robert Dormer, who is said to have passed it to a family called Mitchell.[2] In the 18th century Addingrove passed from Richard Mitchell toSir John Aubrey, 6th Baronet.[2] Aubrey held the manor of Boarstall, so thereafter Addingrove was once again linked with that manor.[2]
After Addingrove was deserted, its land was divided amongst the villages of Oakley,Brill andChilton.[citation needed]
In about 1142 theEmpress Maud granted Oakley church and its dependentchapelries of Brill,Boarstall and Addingrove, to theAugustinianPriory of St Frideswide, Oxford.[2] Addingrove chapel still existed in 1318.[2] Late in the 18th century Addingrove was still a hamlet in the parish of Oakley, but its chapel had been"suffered to fall to ruin".[3]
The possible site of thedeserted medieval village and former chapel of Addingrove may be about 0.25 miles (400 m) north of Addingrove Farm.[4] The only remaining building on the site is a derelict barn,[4] butOrdnance Survey maps of 1878 and 1885 show this as the site of the original Addingrove Farm.[4] Slight hollows suggest where a house may have stood, a slight baulk suggests the route of a former track, andridge and furrow to the west, south and southeast suggest where the limits of the former settlement may have been.[4]
About 0.25 miles (400 m) east of Addingrove Farm the B4011 road between Oakley and Long Crendon crosses a stream, next to which on the east side of the road is a rectilinear medieval ditch that the stream used to feed.[5] The ditch was about 23 feet (7 m) wide and may have been amoat, but there is no trace of amanor house having stood within the rectangle.[5] It may therefore have been a fishpond.[5]
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