Edington, Wiltshire
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 Priory church (St Mary, St Katherine and All Saints) |
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| Edington shown within Wiltshire | |
| Population | 734 (in 2011) |
| OS grid reference | ST927531 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WESTBURY |
| Postcode district | BA13 |
| Dialling code | 01380 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Village |
Edington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east-northeast of Westbury. The village lies under the north slope of Salisbury Plain and the parish extends south onto the Plain.
Tinhead is the former name of the eastern half of present-day Edington, towards Coulston along the B3098 Westbury – Market Lavington road. Tinhead is labelled on the Ordnance Survey map of 1945 but not on the 1958 map. Today the combined settlement is Edington and the name survives only in Tinhead Hill and Tinhead Lane.
Evidence of prehistoric activity includes a long barrow at Tinhead Hill.
The parish was part of the hundred of Whorwellsdown, and is believed to hold a place in English history, for it was probably here that King Alfred the Great won a decisive battle in 878 against the Danes at the Battle of Ethandun.
In the year 957 the Witenagemot, or King's Council, met at Edington. The Domesday Book of 1086 records a large settlement of 67 households, held by Romsey Abbey. The manor, known as Edington Romsey, continued to be held by the abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century.
Edington Priory was founded in the 14th century and became a monastery of the Brothers of Penitence, or Bonshommes. Its large church continues in use as the parish church of St Mary, St Katherine and All Saints but the other monastery buildings were destroyed by 1579; part of a fishpond survives.
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