[1] The place-name "Haddenham" is derived from the Old English Hǣdanhām, "Hǣda's Homestead" or, perhaps Hǣdingahām, "the home of the Hadding tribe".

From the Norman conquest of England until the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Convent of St Andrew in Rochester, Kent held the manor.

Haddenham was long a stronghold of radicalism and in particular of the Buckinghamshire Farm Labourers Union established in 1872 by Edward Richardson of Dinton.

A developer applied for planning permission to demolish the Red Lion and replace it with housing,[5] but in 2014 Aylesbury Vale District Council rejected the application.

In 1987 BR opened Haddenham & Thame Parkway station at a new site, a few hundred yards west of the old one.

Haddenham War Memorial, situated near the village pond at Church End, is a Grade II Listed Building.

Turn End is a listed garden and group of houses designed by architect and resident Peter Aldington and built in the 1960s.

Haddenham has an industrial estate next to the small grass-strip airfield, a commercial district, and Haddenham and Thame Parkway railway station on the Chiltern Main Line that links Birmingham Snow Hill, Oxford railway station and London Marylebone.

Representatives from the various villages in the area meet every six weeks to discuss neighbourhood priorities and to put forward plans to reduce crime.

[29] He is one of a very select group of architects branded by English Heritage as the "living listed" and together with John Craig founded his own practice in the village in 1970.

[30][31] Haddenham has been the setting for a number of television programmes including Jeeves and Wooster, Rosemary & Thyme and eight episodes of Midsomer Murders.

Having been forced to fly in an aeroplane's baggage hold, Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear and Gonzo are thrown out of the plane and land in Haddenham's Church End pond.

Scenes for a further streaming series of "Citadel" were filmed in November 2024 around Skittles Green and Church End where these locations stood in for Scotland (according to a crew member).