Adderbury is a winding linear village and rural civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) south of Banbury in northern Oxfordshire, England.

East and West Adderbury are divided by the south- then east-flowing Sor Brook, a tributary of the Cherwell.

Sor Brook rises at Ratley and Upton in Warwickshire and joins the Cherwell between Adderbury and Aynho, Northamptonshire, the latter river being the eastern parish boundary.

Railways briefly pass through the easternmost river meander, the combined Chiltern Main and Cherwell Valley Lines.

[15] The Roman Catholic Saint George's chapel in Round Close Road in West Adderbury was built in 1956.

[16] This was before the Act of Toleration 1689 legalised Quaker worship in England, so Doyley was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for having had it built.

The meeting house retains 18th century benches, elders' stand and gallery, and is a Grade II* listed building.

[18] A former Independent chapel, self-governing and owing no allegiance to outside denominations was built in 1829 in Cross Hill Road in West Adderbury.

It was owned by Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, who fought on the Royalist side during the English Civil War.

Wilmot was a cavalry commander with Prince Rupert of the Rhine, and both men kept troops at Adderbury House.

In 1739, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, hosted fellow poet Alexander Pope, who composed a poem on his visit.

[3] In the early 1760s, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was asked to create a plan for the park and gardens at Adderbury for Jane, Duchess of Argyll.

Brown's account book shows a charge of £42 for a journey to Adderbury and the preparation of plan 'for alteration of the Park & Gardens'.

[20] It is unclear how much, if any, of Brown's plans were implemented but when the estate was sold in 1774, the grounds consisted of 224 acres of flower gardens, parkland enclosed by belts of evergreens and forest trees and “a fine serpentine stream of water in full view of the house”[21] which was very much in his style.

In the mid-1850s, the owner William Hunt Chamberlin altered the lake area and turned it into pleasure grounds with ornamental buildings and planting.

[23] Gilkes was a prolific clockmaker until the 1770s[24] and maintained the turret clock of St Mary the Virgin parish church from 1747 until 1786.

Subsequent researches have determined that there were once as many as three Morris sides in the village, and the names of more than two dozen of the 19th century dancers have been documented.

[31] The Adderbury tradition has become popular with groups of dancers from as far afield as the United States, Australia and India.

[3] Banbury business park is a modest cluster of office and distribution buildings on Aynho Road in the east of the parish.

In 1977 a talent contest was held as part of Adderbury's celebrations of Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee.

Every year since then, the Village Institute has hosted several dramatic and musical performances including pantomimes, cabarets and plays.

In 1984 members from Adderbury Theatre Workshop appeared at the Cropredy Festival where they performed the Pheasant Pluckers Song.

The M40 motorway passes through the north-east of the parish a few miles south of reaching junction 11 adjoining Banbury's town centre.