Editing Addington, London

{{Distinguish|Addington, Kent}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
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|country                  = England
|region                   = London
|official_name            = Addington
|london_borough           = Croydon
|constituency_westminster = [[Croydon East (UK Parliament constituency)|Croydon East]]
|post_town                = CROYDON
|post_town1               = SOUTH CROYDON
|postcode_area            = CR
|postcode_area1           = CR
|postcode_district        = CR0
|postcode_district1       = CR2
|dial_code                = 01689<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/search.php?GNG=Farnborough%20(Kent)&d=nl|title=Farnborough (Kent) Telephone Code. Farnborough (Kent) Area Code.|work=ukphoneinfo.com}}</ref>
|os_grid_reference        = TQ375645
|coordinates              = {{coord|51.3583|-0.0305|display=inline,title}}
|charingX_distance_mi     = 11.1
|charingX_direction       = NNW
|static_image_name        = Addington Church.jpg
|static_image_caption     = [[St Mary's Church, Addington|St Mary's Church]]
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'''Addington''' is a village and [[list of areas of London|area]] in south [[London]], England, within the [[London Borough of Croydon]]. It is south of [[Spring Park, Croydon|Spring Park]], west of [[Coney Hall]], north of [[New Addington]] and east of [[Forestdale, London|Forestdale]] and [[Selsdon]], and is {{convert|11.1|mi|km|0}} south of [[Charing Cross]] and {{convert|4|mi|km}} south-east of the centre of [[Croydon]].

==History==
In [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, the area was named ''Edintona'' and then ''Eddintone''.<ref>http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TQ3863/addington/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225231323/http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TQ3863/addington/ |date=25 February 2015 }} Domesday Map Online: Addington</ref> The village lay within the [[Wallington (hundred)|Wallington hundred]] in the county of [[Surrey]]. Addington is thought to be named after Edda, a [[Saxon people|Saxon]] landowner. In Domesday, two manors are mentioned, linked with the names Godric and Osward.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lysons |first=Daniel |author-link=Daniel Lysons (antiquarian) |date=1792 |title=The Environs of London |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-environs/vol1/pp1-10 |volume=1, County of Surrey |location=London |pages=1–10 |access-date=25 February 2015}}</ref>

===Addington Palace===
Addington Place, later known as Addington Farm and 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 Leigh family. There is an oft repeated, but false account of a royal hunting lodge, "where King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] supposedly wooed [[Anne Boleyn]], whose family owned nearby Wickham Court" by [[West Wickham]] Parish Church. However, the Anne Boleyn of Wickham Court was the aunt of Queen Anne.

The [[Palladian]] Palace was built in 1780 by [[Barlow Trecothick]], from [[Boston, Massachusetts]] in the colonial [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], who returned to England and became an MP and [[Lord Mayor of the City of London]] in 1770. After his death without heirs, his nephew James Ivers (later Trecothick), also of Boston, continued his uncle's work and had the grounds laid out by [[Capability Brown]].<ref name="Willey">{{cite book |last1=Willey |first1=Russ |title=The London Gazzetteer |date=2006 |publisher=Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd |pages=3–4}}</ref> The estate was sold and eventually, as [[Croydon Palace]] became too inconvenient and unsanitary, the Addington house and part of the estate was bought for the [[Archbishops of Canterbury]] as a country residence.<ref name="Willey"/> The last Archbishop to use it was [[Edward White Benson|Archbishop Benson]]. From 1954 to 1996, Addington Palace was the headquarters of the [[Royal School of Church Music]].<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the RSCM |url=https://www.rscm.org.uk/world-of-the-rscm/history/ |website=Royal School of Church Music}}</ref>

===New Addington===
Around 1805 parts of the estate covering what is now New Addington were sold to John Cator of Beckenham Place, including Castle Hill Farm. Cator left this to George and Henry Sparkes in his Will in 1806, citing "Addington recently acquired from ..... Trecothick" but the land appears as part of the Cator estates in an 1825 private Act of Parliament allowing the Cators to sell the land, as John Barwell Cator was transferring the main estate holdings to [[Woodbastwick]] in Norfolk.<ref>Will of John Cator, 1825 private Act of Parliament.</ref>

[[File:Addington Palace1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Addington Palace]], listed at grade II*<ref name="NHLE">{{National Heritage List for England| num=1358819 |desc=Addington Palace (Royal School of Church Music) |grade=II* |access-date=7 December 2015}}</ref>]]
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.

[[New Addington]] was developed to the south of the existing village from the 1930s onwards.

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 century, despite its being in [[Greater London]]. There is a blacksmith's forge, dating from around 1740, now mainly making ornamental ironwork.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.croydononline.org/history/heritage/old_forge.asp|title=Online communities|date=22 January 2016}}</ref>
The hunt used to meet outside the pub, ''The Cricketers'' which has reverted to its former name once again after a temporary change of name. The village [[co-operative]] store and post office is now a private house.

==St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church==
[[File:Southeast View of the Church of Saint Mary the Blessed Virgin Church, Addington (03).jpg|thumb|left|Southeast view of the Church of Saint Mary]]
[[St Mary's Church, Addington]] is an [[Anglican]] church in the village. It is associated with the [[Archbishops of Canterbury]] of the 19th century, who lived at nearby [[Addington Palace]].<ref name="Willey"/> Five successive archbishops are buried at the church: [[Charles Manners-Sutton]] (d.1828); [[William Howley]] (d.1848); [[John Bird Sumner]] (d.1862); [[Charles Longley]] (d.1868); and [[Archibald Campbell Tait]] (d.1882).<ref>{{cite web|title=Church Timeline: 1850 - present day|url=http://www.addington.org.uk/page/1002/church-timeline-1850-present-day|website=St Mary's Church, Addingtom|access-date=21 May 2016|archive-date=24 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624022524/http://www.addington.org.uk/page/1002/church-timeline-1850-present-day|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Transport==
===Rail===
[[Addington Village Interchange]] (also known as Addington Village tram stop) connects the area with [[Tramlink]] services to [[West Croydon station|West Croydon]] and [[New Addington tram stop|New Addington]]. Addington Palace is served by [[Gravel Hill tram stop]] on the same line.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetrams.co.uk/croydon/stops/Gravel_Hill|website =The Trams|title=Croydon Tramlink : Tram Stops : Gravel Hill|access-date=16 July 2019}}</ref>

===Bus===
The interchange also provides access to bus routes run by [[Transport for London]], which connect it with areas including [[Bromley]], [[Croydon]], [[Eltham]], [[Hayes, Bromley|Hayes]], [[New Addington]], [[Orpington]], [[Purley, London|Purley]] and [[Thornton Heath]].

==Sport==
{{further|Addington Cricket Club}}
Cricket has been played in the village since at least the 18th century.<ref name="Willey"/>

The Addington Golf Club is regarded as an important golf facility in the London area.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Oliver, Darius |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/950264993 |title=Planet golf |date=September 2016 |publisher=Thames & Hudson Australia Pty, Limited |isbn=978-0-500-50081-1 |oclc=950264993}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Village Sign at Addington, South London.jpg|Village sign
File:Addington_village_forge.jpg|Old village forge, dating to do the 18th century<ref>{{cite web |title=The Addington Forge |url=https://www.addingtonforge.com/the-forge.html |access-date=2 September 2020}}</ref>
File:Flint Cottage, Addington (South Face - 01).jpg|Flint Cottage, built 1796 and now listed at grade II<ref>{{NHLE|num=1079345|desc=Flint Cottage, Addington|access-date=2 September 2020}}</ref>
File:The Village Inn, Addington - geograph.org.uk - 1031815.jpg|The Cricketers (Harvester) pub
File:Addington Village Tram Stop - geograph.org.uk - 1188324.jpg|Addington Village tram stop
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Addington, New Zealand]] - a [[Christchurch]] suburb, named after [[Addington Palace]], the summer residence of [[John Bird Sumner|John Sumner]].<ref name="Reed">{{cite book |last=Reed |first=A. W.|title=Place Names of New Zealand |year=2010 |publisher=Raupo |location=Rosedale, North Shore |isbn=978-0-14-320410-7 |page = 17|editor=Peter Dowling}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* {{OpenDomesday|TQ3863|addington|Addington}}

==Further reading==
* ''Addington: A History'' by Frank Warren, (Phillimore & Company; 1984)

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[[Category:Villages in London]]