Little Addington

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Little Addington
Northamptonshire

Little Addington
Location
Grid reference: SP959735
Location: 52°21’7"N, -0°35’36"W
Data
Population: 328  (2011)
Post town: Kettering
Postcode: NN14
Dialling code: 01933
Local Government
Council: North Northamptonshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Corby

Little Addington is a village in Northamptonshire, beside the braded streams of the River Nene a mile and a half north of Irthlingborough and a mile south of its sister village, Great Addington. The village is about eight miles south-east of Kettering. At the time of the 2011 census, the parish's population was 328.

The village's name means 'Eadda's (or Ædda's) people's farm/settlement'.

Nearby is the site of a Roman Villa; now a scheduled ancient monument.

Church

The village church, St Mary, dates from the late 13th to mid-14th century.[1] It was restored in 1857 by Northampton architect Edmund Francis Law.It is a Grade I listed building.

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References

  1. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1961; 1973 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3page 292

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