Addington, Kent
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| Population | 769 (2011 Census)[1] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | West Malling |
| Postcode district | ME19 |
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| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
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Addington is a village in the English county of Kent. It is close to the M20 motorway, and between the villages of Wrotham Heath and West Malling. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is called Eddintune. The meaning of the village's name is "Æddi's (or Eadda's) estate".[3] The village is notable for the long barrows, Neolithic chamber tombs. Its parish covers a little under 700 acres (2.8 km2), containing 291 houses. Addington Brook runs through the parish.
History
Addington has been continuously inhabited for over 5,000 years. Many Neolithic artifacts have been extracted from the village, but much archaeological evidence has been lost to mechanical digging. Some sites were excavated during the building of the motorway. It had two mills at the time of the Domesday survey.[4] There was a watermill powered by the Addington Brook (TQ 656 587 Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.), demolished in the nineteenth century; the site now lies within West Malling Golf Course.[5][6] The remains of an old structure named the Addington Place were visible until the early 21st century, now beneath a golf course and stables.
During the Black Death, Addington was severely affected, and four of the church rectors succumbed to it.[7]
Features
The village has one pub, the Angel. There are rumours of a tunnel running from the pub's basement to the church, located 750 m (820 yd) away. Addington does not have a school, so children attend schools in nearby villages. Addington is divided by the M20 and M26 motorways. There are sandpits and quarries on both sides of the motorways, which are now almost entirely worked out.
The village is home to Addington Village Cricket Club, which has two Saturday teams and a 1st XI that plays in Division 2 of the Kent League (1st XI).
The parish church is dedicated to St. Margaret, and dates back to 1403.[8] It is part of a combined benefice with All Saints Birling, St. Martin Ryarsh and St. Peter & St. Paul Trottiscliffe.[9]
Traces of the former gardens of Addington Park can still be seen. Rockeries, ponds and old tennis courts are easily discernible in the private grounds of the Seekers Trust between a church and the golf course.
Long barrows
Chestnuts
The Chestnuts long barrow is the better preserved of the two long barrows. It was excavated in 1957, and artifacts from the dig are displayed in Maidstone Museum. It is believed to be on a Ley line.
Addington
Addington long barrow is not well-preserved. Its area has been plundered throughout the history of the village, and a road goes through it.
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Location of Tonbridge". parliament.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kent place names". BBC. Retrieved 9 March 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Coles Finch, William (1933). Watermills & Windmills. London: C W Daniel Company.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fuller & Spain (1986). Watermills (Kent and the Borders of Sussex). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society. ISBN 0-906746-08-6.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Watermills list". The Mills Archive. Archived from the original on 18 April 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mee, Arthur (1936). The King's England: Arthur Mee's Kent. The Caxton Publishing Company Ltd. p. 14.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bristow, W. "Parishes: Addington Pages 542-548 The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4". British History Online. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BART Group of Churches". BART Combined Benefice. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
External links
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- Addington in the Domesday Book
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