ADDINGTON, a parish in the hundred of LARKFIELD, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 7 miles (N. W. by W.) from Maidstone, containing 228 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester, rated in the king's books at £6. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Hon. J. W. Stratford. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. On an eminence, at a short distance from it, are the remains of a monument, supposed to be Druidical, consisting of a circle of stones, in some degree resembling Stonehenge, with a smaller circle situated to the north-west, near which copper swords; British coins, and other relics, have been discovered. In this parish is one of those land springs which are very common in the eastern part of Kent, called the Nailbourn: the stream breaks out with great impetuosity once in seven or eight years, directing its course into a trench dug for its reception, till it arrives at the Leybourn rivulet, the trout in which, at other times white, it turns to a red colour.