ADDINGTON (GREAT), a parish in the hundred
of HUXLOE, county of NORTHAMPTON, 4 miles (S. W.)
from Thrapston, containing 256 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and
diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at
£10. 12. 8., and in the patronage of the Rev. James
Tyley. The church is dedicated to All Saints. This
parish communicates with the North Sea, through the
Northampton canal and the river Nen, the former of
which here divides into two branches.