ADDINGTON, a parish in the first division of the
hundred of WALLINGTON, county of SURREY, 3 miles
(E. S. E.) from Croydon, containing 354 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged.vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Surrey, and diocese of Winchester, rated in the
king's books at £4. 16. 5., and in the patronage of
the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary: in the chancel lie the remains of the
late Archbishop Sutton. The manor of Addington is
held by the singular tenure of making and presenting
to the king, at his coronation, a mess of pottage, called
maupygernon, subject to the performance of which, a
carucate of land here was granted to Tezelin, cook to
William the-Conqueror. On the brow of the hill adjoining
Addington common are several low tumuli, in which
urns have been found. Adjacent to the village is Addington
Place, which, in 1807, was purchased by Dr.
Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, with the funds
arising from the sale of the archiepiscopal palace at
Croydon. The mansion was originally erected by Alderman
Trecothick, on the site of an ancient edifice
said to have been a hunting seat of Henry VIII.;
it was considerably enlarged and improved by Dr.
Sutton, and is now being rebuilt by Dr. Howley, the
present archbishop, for the future residence of the
primates. A few years ago a water-spout burst on the
adjacent eminences, and the water rushing into the village,
destroyed considerable property there.