ADDINGTON, a parish in the hundred of BUCKINGHAM, and county
of BUCKINGHAM, 1 mile (W. N, W.) from Winslow,
containing 89 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £9. 9. 7., and in the
patronage of John Poulett, Esq. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. A small sum of money was bequeathed
by Ann Busby, in 1736, for educating and
apprenticing poor children. On the border of the parish
is a place called "Gallows' Gap," where, in the reign
of Edward III., a gallows was erected by one of the family
of Molines, who, as lord of the barony, possessed
the power of trying and executing capital offenders.