Allington (Amesbury), Wiltshire

Historical Description

Allington, a parish in Wilts, on the Roman road from Old Sarum to Silchester, 2½ miles NE of Porton station on the L. & S.W. R., and 3 ESE of Amesbury. Acreage, 957; population, 70. Post town, Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Winterbourne Gunner. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £100. Patron, the Earl of Craven. The church is very good. There is a small Methodist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Allington 1623-1812, Wiltshire is available to browse online.

Churches

Church of England

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Allington (Amesbury) from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Allington)

Maps

Online maps of Allington (Amesbury) are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online:

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle