Allington, Salisbury

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Coordinates: 51°09′N 1°43′W / 51.15°N 1.71°W / 51.15; -01.71

Allington
Allington  Allington shown within Wiltshire
OS grid reference	SU2039
Unitary authority	Wiltshire
Ceremonial county	Wiltshire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Wiltshire
Fire	Wiltshire
Ambulance	Great Western
EU Parliament	South West England
List of places: UK • England • Wiltshire

Allington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about nine miles north-east of Salisbury. The parish includes the villages of Allington and Boscombe.

Nearby villages are Idmiston, Amesbury and Newton Tony.

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.^[1]

See also

• St John the Baptist's Church, Allington

References

External links

• Media related to Allington, Salisbury at Wikimedia Commons
• Allington in the Domesday Book

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