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Directional. This ancient road, which along the south eastern boundary of Spring Park, leads from West Wickham to the nearby village of Addington, was the old Kent – Surrey boundary. The name Addington itself comes from a corruption of Eddintone, which was recorded in the Domesday survey of 1086. It was named after Eadda, the Anglo-Saxon landowner, hence Eadda or Æddi’s estate. Over the centuries the name went through various spellings Adingeton in 1203, Adinton in 1219, and Adington in 1247.
