Addington

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 England:

• Addington, Bradford
• Addington, Buckinghamshire
• Addington, Cornwall
• Addington, Kent
• Addington long barrow an archaeological site nearby
• Addington, Lancashire, near Carnforth
• Addington, London, site of the following:
• Addington Palace
• Addington Park
• Addington Village tram stop
• Addington Cricket Club
• New Addington, site of the following:
• Addington Vale park
• Addington High School
• New Addington tram stop
• Addington Hills park, in Upper Shirley, formerly part of Addington
• Great Addington, Northamptonshire

In New Zealand:

• Addington, New Zealand

In the United States:

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

People

• Anthony Addington (1713-1790), physician, writer
• Crandell Addington, poker player, one of the founders of the World Series of Poker
• David Addington, chief of staff 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

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