Population 493 (in 2011) Civil parish Allington Local time Sunday 12:49 PM | OS grid reference SU203396 Unitary authority Dialling code 01980 | |
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Allington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Amesbury and 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Salisbury. The parish includes the village of Boscombe; both villages are on the River Bourne and the A338 road.
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Map of Allington, UK
History
The south of the parish has evidence of Iron Age settlement and a Romano-British villa; the Port Way Roman road crossed the parish in the southeast.
Allington is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.
James Bell's A new and comprehensive gazetteer of England and Wales (1836) says -
ALLINGTON (formerly Aldington), a parish in the hundred of Amesbury, county of Wilts. The living is a rectory in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, valued in the king's books at £14 13s. 4d. and in 1839 in the patronage of the earl of Craven. There is a free school here. Distance from Amesbury 3 1⁄2 m. E.S.E. The population in 1801 was 75; and in 1831, 80. Assessed property, £721.
In 1934 the neighbouring small parish of Boscombe was added to Allington parish.
Religious sites
The Church of England parish church of St Andrew at Boscombe dates from the 14th century and is Grade I listed.
A cottage at Allington was converted into a Primitive Methodist chapel in 1843 and extended in 1981. By 2014 the building had returned to private occupation.
The church at Allington was built in 1851 on the site of an older church, incorporating 12th-century material. It was declared redundant in 2010.
Railways
The Andover to Salisbury railway opened across the southeast of the parish in 1857. In the north of the parish, the Amesbury and Military Camp Light Railway was built in 1901 to serve Bulford Camp, with a station at Newton Tony where the line crossed the Allington road. This line closed to passengers in 1952, with goods services continuing until 1963.
Amenities
There was no school in Allington village. Early schools at Boscombe were replaced by a new building in 1902 which continued in use until 1972; the nearest primary school is at Newton Tony. Allington has a pub, the Old Inn.