It consists of approximately 100 households; at the time of the 2011 census, the population of the parish (including Slipton) was 327 people.

[1] It has a school, church, manor house, village hall, a pub called the Hare & Hounds, playing fields and homes.

[citation needed] A detailed history of the village from the Iron-Age to the modern day - including information about many of the buildings and people of the village - can be found at A History of Great Addington (greataddingtonhistory.uk) The following buildings and structures are listed by Historic England as of special architectural or historic interest.

[3] [4] The parish covers nearly 500 hectares of land extending in a broad strip westwards from the R. Nene, on generally rising ground between 120 ft. and 300 ft. above OD.

Ploughing has produced quantities of Roman pottery, some of Nene Valley type, together with a scatter of limestone rubble and roofing tiles, perhaps indicating former buildings, over an area of 50 sq.

; see also OS Record Cards; Whellan, Dir., 742) b(7) Anglo-Saxon Burial (centred SP 966752) was found in 1883 by ironstone diggers on the slopes of the Nene Valley near the road to Ringstead.

Calcined bones were contained in an unusual jug-shaped urn with a funnel handle, ornamented with a rope-pattern and incised zig-zag lines.

This vessel is one of the very rare English examples of a type found in cemeteries in the Bremen region of Germany.

Recent field-walking in the area has produced a few sandy hand made Saxon sherds (Beds.

Small areas of ridge-and-furrow of the former common fields still remain, or can be traced on air photographs, over the whole parish in the form of interlocked furlongs generally of C-shape.

It is straight or slightly curved, within existing fields and with well-marked headlands, and was all within old enclosures in 1803 (RAF VAP CPE/UK 1925, 1248–54, 4338–43).

Nearby settlements include Little Addington, Woodford, Ringstead, Denford, Irthlingborough, Raunds, Thrapston, Higham Ferrers, Kettering, Chelveston, Wellingborough and Stanwick.