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ADDISCOMBE, a locality 1¼ mile E of Croydon, with a post office under that town, in Surrey. an edifice here, within a pleasant small park, was built by Vanburgh, inhabited by the Herons, Lord Chancellor Talbot, Lord Liverpool, and the Clarkes, purchased in 1812 by the East India Company, and made a military college for their cadets. The estate was sold, in 1861, for £33,600 to the British Land Company.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a locality" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Surrey Ancient County |
| Place: | Addiscombe |
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