Allington, Salisbury

Allington
The Old Inn, Allington
Allington Allington shown within Wiltshire
Population	493 (in 2011)
OS grid reference	SU203396
Civil parish	Allington
Unitary authority	Wiltshire
Ceremonial county	Wiltshire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Salisbury
Postcode district	SP4
Dialling code	01980
Police	Wiltshire
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	Salisbury
Website	Parish
List of places UK England Wiltshire 51°09′18″N 1°42′40″W / 51.155°N 1.711°W / 51.155; -1.711Coordinates: 51°09′18″N 1°42′40″W / 51.155°N 1.711°W / 51.155; -1.711

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.

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.

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.