Addington

Addington is a village in the English county of Kent. It is close to the M20 motorway, and between the villages of Wrotham Heath and West Malling. The Domesday Book called it Eddintune. The meaning of the village's name is "Æddi's estate". The village is notable for the long barrows, Neolithic chamber tombs. Its parish covers a little under 700 acres , containing 291 houses. Addington Brook runs through the parish.

Addington has been continuously inhabited for over 5,000 years. Many Neolithic artifacts have been extracted from the village, but much archaeological evidence has been lost to mechanical digging. Some sites were excavated during the building of the motorway. It had two mills at the time of the Domesday survey. There was a watermill powered by the Addington Brook , demolished in the nineteenth century; the site now lies within West Malling Golf Course. The remains of an old structure named the Addington Place were visible until the early 21st century, now beneath a golf course and stables.

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