Addington

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Addington may refer to:

[edit] Places

Addington as a place name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Eadda's estate'.

In Australia:

• Addington, Victoria

In Canada:

• Addington, Ontario
• Addington County, Ontario (now Lennox and Addington County, Ontario)
• Addington Highlands, Ontario
• Addington (electoral district)

In New Zealand:

• Addington, New Zealand

In the United Kingdom:

• Addington, Bradford
• Addington, Buckinghamshire
• Addington, Cornwall
• Addington, Kent
  • Addington long barrow an archaeological site nearby
• Addington, Lancashire, near Carnforth
• Addington, London, formerly in Surrey, site of Addington Palace, Addington Park, and Addington Village tram stop; home in the 18th century to the famous Addington Cricket Club
  • nearby is New Addington, site of Addington Vale park and Addington High School, served by the New Addington Tramlink stop
  • also nearby is Addington Hills park, in Upper Shirley, formerly part of Addington
• Great Addington, Northamptonshire

In the United States:

• Addington Mill, North Carolina
• Addington, Oklahoma
• Addington, Virginia

[edit] People

• Anthony Addington (1713-1790), physician, writer
• Crandell Addington, poker player, one of the founders of the World Series of Poker
• David Addington, counsel to Dick Cheney
• Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804
• Stephen Addington (1729-1796), minister
• Steve Addington, NASCAR crew chief
• Addington Bruce, Canadian/American journalist and author
• John Addington Symonds, (1840-1893) English poet and literary critic

[edit] Things

• Baron Addington, a title in the Peerage of the UK
• Addington Field, an airport serving Elizabethtown, Kentucky
• Addington Workshops, a railway facility in Christchurch, New Zealand