Addington, London

Addington, London
Coordinates:
0.0305°W
51°21′30″N 0°01′50″W / 51.3583°N had the grounds laid out by Lancelot Brown. The estate
was sold and eventually, as Croydon Palace became too
inconvenient and unsanitary, the Addington house and
Addington is an area of south, England, located in the
London Borough of Croydon. It is situated 11.1 miles part of the estate was bought for the Archbishops of Canterbury as a country residence. The last Archbishop to
(18 km) south south-east of Charing Cross.
use it was Archbishop Benson.
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In the 20th century, technological advances and population growth in the region led to many changes in the way
of life for people in Addington. At the beginning of the
century, Addington was in the county of Surrey, which
had established urban and rural districts to provide services matched to the needs of the differing communities.
The parish of Addington was transferred to Godstone
Rural District on abolition of Croydon Rural District in
1915. Subsequently Addington parish was absorbed by
the County Borough of Croydon in 1925. Since 1965 the
county borough has been part of the London Borough of
Croydon within highly urbanized Greater London, which
ended over 900 years of administration by the county of
Surrey.
History
There are still several old houses and buildings in Addington and, even though there has been some fairly modern building, the village atmosphere is intact in the 21st
Addington Palace
century, despite its being in Greater London. There
is a blacksmith’s forge, still mainly making ornamental
In ancient days named Edintona, then Eddintone.[2] ironwork.[4] The hunt used to meet outside the pub, The
The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative di- Cricketers which has reverted to its former name once
vision of Wallington hundred. Addington is thought to be again after a temporary change of name. The village conamed after Edda, a Saxon. In the Domesday Book, two operative store and post office is now a private house.
manors are mentioned, linked with the names Godric and
The book, “Addington: A History” was written by Frank
Osward.[3]
Warren, and published by Phillimore & Company in
Addington Place, later known as Addington Farm and 1984.
now called Addington Palace, dominates the village
above the church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church
and the 'Cricketers’ pub. The manor house was situated behind the church and was the residence of the 2 St Mary the Blessed Virgin
Leigh family. From this Leigh family, Pamela, CountChurch
ess Mountbatten is descended. There is an oft repeated,
but false account of a royal hunting lodge, “where King
Henry VIII supposedly wooed Anne Boleyn, whose fam- The church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church, built
ily owned nearby Wickham Court" by West Wickham in 1080, in Addington village was once the only church
Parish Church. However Anne Boleyn of Wickham when it was the centre of a larger parish then incorporatCourt was the aunt of Queen Anne.
ing Shirley. Now the church ministers to the people livThe Palladian mansion was built in the mid-18th century ing in the more immediate vicinity that includes Addingby Barlow Trecothick, from Boston, Massachusetts in the ton village, the southern elevation of and escarpment runUnited States, who returned to England and became an ning down from the Addington Hills, the residences along
MP and Lord Mayor of the City of London. After his Fieldway on the northernmost part of the New Addington
death without heirs, his nephew James Ivers (later Tre- estate, Addington and Forestdale.
cothick), also of Boston, continued his uncle’s work and It has an 11th-century chancel and windows. The south
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aisle, built in the early 13th century, is narrow as it
once had a thatched roof, hence its falling roofline. The
belltower assumed its current form in 1876.[5] The church
tower has a belfry with 6 bells, the earliest probably dating
from 1380 as well as two 17th Century bells. The bells
were restored in 1957. The chancel was richly decorated
in 1898 in memory of Archbishop Benson.
The crypt is now inaccessible, but the church is the
burial place of a Lord Mayor of the City of London, the
armigerous Leigh family who were Lords of the manor
and five of the six Archbishops of Canterbury who spent
time at their residence nearby Addington Palace. The
Archbishops interred at St. Mary’s are:
• Archbishop Charles Manners-Sutton - Died 1828
(buried in a vault under the vestry).
• Archbishop William Howley - Died 1848 (buried in
the chancel).
• Archbishop John Bird Sumner - Died 1862 (buried
in the churchyard).
• Archbishop Charles Longley - Died 1868 (buried in
the churchyard).
• Archbishop Archibald Campbell Tait - Died 1882
(buried in churchyard).
There is also a memorial to the Archbishops in the graveyard.
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Addington Cricket Club
Further information: Addington Cricket Club
The cricket field is one of the oldest in England and still
used. Its famous players at the time were Tom Faulkner,
Joe Harris, John Harris, George Jackson and the enigmatic batsman Durling.
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References
[1] http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/search.php?GNG=
Farnborough%20(Kent)&d=nl
[2] http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TQ3863/
addington/ Domesday Map Online: Addington
[3] http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-environs/vol1/
pp1-10 Daniel Lysons, 'Addington', in The Environs
of London: Volume 1, County of Surrey (London,
1792), pp.
1-10 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
london-environs/vol1/pp1-10 [accessed 25 February
2015].
[4] http://www.croydononline.org/history/heritage/old_
forge.asp
EXTERNAL LINKS
[5] http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/bucks/vol2/
pp53-54 'Addington', in An Inventory of the
Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, Volume 2, North (London, 1913), pp.
53-54 http:
//www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/bucks/vol2/pp53-54
[accessed 25 February 2015].
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• Addington in the Domesday Book
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