Shaxton Crescent was built immediately before the second world war.
Until the 1930s, the area now known as New Addington was farmland and woodland, the farms being Castle Hill, Addington Lodge and Fisher’s Farm.
In 1935, the First National Housing Trust purchased 569 acres (2.3 of Fisher’s Farm with the intention of erecting a ’Garden Village’, with 4400 houses, shops, two churches, cinema, and village green. The Chairman of the Trust was Charles Boot, hence the earliest part of New Addington is sometimes called The Boot’s Estate.
