Place Name
Originally this road only extended between Longley Road and Lambeth Road in the mid-1860s. The name Addington is 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. David Mills in A Dictionary of London Place Names speculates: “If the name of the Saxon landowner was Æddi, Addiscombe (some 2 miles north-west) may refer to the same man.”
