Addington, Great, a parish in Northamptonshire, on the river Nen, near Ringstead station on the L. & N.W.R., 4 1/2 miles SW of Thrapston. It has a post office under Thrapston, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Woodford. Acreage, 1261; population, 299. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is a small but ancient building containing some interesting tombs and monuments.