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General
Podington is referred to as either Podintone or Potintone in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means farm or settlement connected with Poda or Puda’ (from the Old English -ingtun).
Podington is a stone built village with seventeenth and eighteenth century cottages and a church which has some Norman and fourteenth century work as well as a fourteenth century crocketed spire (crocket is an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage).
What makes the village unusual, for an English village, is the fact that it has no public house.
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Oak Cottage
In Oak Cottage, Vicarage Lane, the ghost of a lady wearing a lace bonnet can be seen. She is searching for her bobbins as the cottage was once a lace making school.
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