Bespoke Shutters in Addiscombe
The South London area of Addiscombe has a centuries-long history, with the name itself having been traced as far back as the 13th century. Addiscombe used to be a highly rural site belonging to an Anglo-Saxon landowner known as Eadda.
The name ‘Addiscombe’ is thought to essentially combine the meaning ‘Eadda’s estate’ with the word ‘camp’, an Old English word for an enclosed area. Over the subsequent centuries, the large country estate of Addiscombe passed through several owners, including Sir Nicholas Heron of the Tudor period and Sir Purbeck Temple in the late 17th century.
Since then, Addiscombe has gone through many revisions — with the gentleman’s house of Addiscombe Place having been built in 1703 but razed to the ground in the late Victorian era. Around the same time, Addiscombe railway station opened, but the building was eventually demolished in 2001.