Addingrove
Addingrove was a hamlet in Buckinghamshire, found about four miles north-west of Thame, across in neighbouring Oxfordshire. It was beside what is now the B4011 road, between Oakley and Long Crendon.
The hamlet has now vanished. What remains are Addingrove Farm and a cottage. The site is within the parish of Oakley.
Name
The name 'Addingrove' is derived from the Old English for "Ædda's wood".[1] From the 11th to the 15th centuries it is found recorded in the forms Eddingrave, Adegrave and Adingrave.
Manor
The Domesday Book of 1086 records that Ulward, a man of Queen Edith, held the manor in the reign of Edward the Confessor, but that after the Norman Conquest it was granted to Walter Giffard and assessed at three and a half hides.[2] Addingrove remained part of the Honour until 1256, when Giffard's descendant Joan Marshal became married to William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke.[2] After the death of Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke in 1324, Addingrove passed to William's granddaughter Elizabeth de Comyn.[2] It then passed by Elizabeth's second marriage to Richard Talbot, 2nd Baron Talbot.[2] Talbot also held the manor of Pollicott in Ashendon.[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's mesne lord was Hugh de Bolebec, whose heirs were the Earls of Oxford.[2] The mesne lordshire of Addingrove followed that of Whitchurch until 1635.[2] By 1173 the sub-tenants of the Earls of Oxford were a family called Morel.[2]
The manor passed through many hands over the centuries. In the 18th century Addingrove came to Sir John Aubrey, 6th Baronet,[2] who also held the manor of Boarstall.
After Addingrove was deserted, its land was divided amongst the villages of Oakley, Brill and Chilton.
Chapel
In about 1142 the Empress Maud granted Oakley church and its dependent chapelries of Brill, Boarstall and Addingrove, to the Augustinian Priory 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]
Hamlet
The possible site of the deserted village and the former chapel of Addingrove may be about a quarter of a mile north of Addingrove Farm.[4] The only remaining building on the site is a derelict barn,[4] but Ordnance 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, and ridge and furrow to the west, south and southeast suggest where the limits of the former settlement may have been.[4]
About a quarter of a mile 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 mediæval ditch that the stream used to feed.[5] The ditch was about 23 feet wide and may have been a moat, but there is no trace of a manor house having stood within the rectangle.[5] It may therefore have been a fishpond.[5]
Location
- Location map: 51°48’-0"N, 1°2’10"W
OS map: SP666110
Outside links
References
- ↑ Place-Names, page 127
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 Page 1927, pp. 80–85.
- ↑ Lysons & Lysons 1806, p. not cited.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "BCC record ID: 0196600000". Unlocking Buckinghamshire's Past. Buckinghamshire County Council. https://ubp.buckscc.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid='MBC5832'.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "BCC record ID: 0155500000". Unlocking Buckinghamshire's Past. Buckinghamshire County Council. https://ubp.buckscc.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid='MBC4602'.
- Beresford, Maurice: 'Lost Villages of England' (Lutterworth, 1954)
- A History of the County of Buckingham - Volume 4 pp 80-85: Parishes: Oakley (Victoria County History)