Editing Addiscombe (section)

===Suburban growth===
[[File:St Mary Magdalene, Addiscombe - geograph.org.uk - 891614.jpg|thumb|200px|St Mary Magdalene Church, Addiscombe.]]
With the advent of the railways in the 1830s, Cherry Orchard Road linking Addiscombe with Croydon ceased to be a quiet rural lane and railway workers' cottages sprang up, many with the still-visible date of 1838. However it was not until 1858 and the sale of the college, that significant urbanisation occurred.

There was formerly a small chapel attached to Addiscombe Military Seminary and to this, cadets paraded each morning and evening for a service conducted by the chaplain. On Sundays, cadets went down to the Parish Church in Croydon. By 1827, it became clear that Croydon Parish Church was too far away to minister to the college needs and St James' Parish Church was built and consecrated on 31 January 1829.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} The population of Addiscombe at this time was about 1,000.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} In 1870, the church of St Paul's (built by [[Edward Buckton Lamb]]) was opened and then rededicated in 1874 to St Mary Magdalene.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} The parish of Addiscombe was formed in 1879.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

In the 1890s, the Ashburton Estate was gradually sold for redevelopment, and Ashburton House, which had previously hosted literary figures such as [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], [[Thomas Carlyle]] and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], was demolished in 1910.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britainexpress.com/London/Addiscombe.htm|title=Addiscombe|work=Britain Express}}</ref>