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Queen Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 – March 24, 1603) was variously known as the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, she was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor. Elizabeth’s reign is generally credited with overseeing the rise of Britain’s global ambitions and the making of early modern London. This is one of a cluster of New Addington streets, built from around 1934 by the First National Housing Trust, that were named after either Tudor monarchs or worthies in reference to the fact that Henry VIII used to own a hunting lodge on what became the grounds of Addington Palace. The driving force behind the Trust was its chairman, Charles Boot, which explains why the earliest part of New Addington estate is sometimes referred to as The Boot Estate. Both Elizabeth and her father King Henry VIII were regular visitors to nearby Croydon Palace, now a school, but in Tudor times it served the summer residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
