'Addingrove' was a small
hamlet between
Oakley and
Long Crendon, now only represented by a
farm and a
cottage. Its land was divided amongst the villages of Oakley,
Brill and
Chilton.
History
The name Addingrove means "Æddi's wood" - Æddi (or
Eddius Stephanus) was the
biographer of Saint
Wilfrid. In the
Domesday Book of
1086, the
manor of Eddingrove was held by Ulward, a man of
Queen Edith, in the reign of
Edward the Confessor, and became part of the lands of
Walter Giffard and was then assessed at three and a half hides.
The
Empress Maud granted Oakley
church in about
1142, along with its
chapels of Brill,
Boarstall and Addingrove, to the monks of
St Frideswide's Priory, in
Oxford. In the late
18th century Addingrove was still a hamlet in the
parish of Oakley, which had a chapel that had been "suffered to fall to ruin"
[1]
Why Addingrove failed as a
village is subject to conjecture. However, its original location is now a quarter of a mile east of the present Addingrove Farm and very little remains of the original buildings.
External links
★
Map showing location of Addingrove at streetmap.co.uk
References
1. 1806 Magna Brittania cited at Genuki
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