Ellingham, Hampshire
| Ellingham | |
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 St Mary and All Saints Church, Ellingham |
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| Ellingham shown within Hampshire | |
| OS grid reference | SU1408 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | RINGWOOD |
| Postcode district | BH24 |
| Dialling code | 01425 |
| Police | Hampshire |
| Fire | Hampshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Ellingham is a small village near Ringwood in Hampshire, England, west of the New Forest National Park. It is in the civil parish of Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley. Ellingham is most famous for the story of Alice Lisle, who was executed by the infamous Judge Jeffreys in 1685, on the charge of harbouring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion.
Ellingham is a small village near Ringwood in Hampshire. It contains the hamlet of Rockford, and Moyles Court, the large house which is now a school. The village and surrounding countryside are a large tourist attraction in the summer months. Much of the area around Ellingham was once farmland and woodland, but since the 1950s sand and gravel extraction has created a series of lakes known collectively as Blashford Lakes. These lakes now separate Ellingham church from the rest of the former parish around Rockford and Moyles Court. Alice Lisle has an inn named after her in Rockford.
Ellingham was a civil parish until 1974, when the parish was amalgamated with the parishes of Harbridge and Ibsley.
The name Ellingham may mean "Æthelingas' estate". In the Domesday Book of 1086, Cola the Huntsman held Ellingham from the King. In 1160 William de Solers was holding the manor and granted Ellingham church, and lands in Ellingham, to the Abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in Normandy. William de Punchardon held the manor in the reign of Richard I, and it descended, like Faccombe, with the Punchardons until 1499. It then passed by descent into the Okeden family who held it until the middle of the 17th century.
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