Addington
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Addington may refer to:
[edit] Places
Addington as a place name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Eadda's estate'.
In Australia:
In Canada:
- Addington, Ontario
- Addington County, Ontario (now Lennox and Addington County, Ontario)
- Addington Highlands, Ontario
- Addington Parish, New Brunswick
- 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:
- New Addington, site of the following:
- Addington Hills park, in Upper Shirley, formerly part of Addington
- Great Addington, Northamptonshire
In New Zealand:
In the United States:
[edit] 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
- Deborah Addington, an American author
- 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
[edit] Other
- 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
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