Allington, Lincolnshire
| Allington | |
|---|---|
 Village green, Allington | |
  Allington Location within Lincolnshire | |
| Population | 897 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SK858402 |
| • London | 100 mi (160 km) S |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Grantham |
| Postcode district | NG32 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Allington is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Grantham. The 2001 census gave a parish population of 728 in 329 households.[1] The population increased to 897 in 422 households in the 2011 census.[2]
History
[edit]Some evidence has been found of settlement in the Neolithic period. Roman artefacts have also been found nearby. The population at the time of the Domesday Book was about 300.[3]
At the time of the Norman conquest the name of the village was Adelinctune. It belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.[4]
Allington's Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.[5] East and West Allington parishes were combined in 1896 and St James's Church in East Allington, the smaller building of the two, was demolished.[3]
The poet George Crabbe (1754–1832) became the incumbent of Muston, Leicestershire and West Allington in 1789, remaining until 1792.[6] His Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir was a pioneering study of the district.[7] English Heritage gives the date of Crabbe's Allington incumbency as 1790 to 1814, but he was an absentee for most of the remaining years.[5]
In the 19th century Allington comprised two parishes, East and West, but centred on one village as a township which looked after the poor of both parishes. In 1872 White's Directory reported that East Allington had a population of 267, and West Allington 141. The combined area of both parishes was 2,070 acres (8 km2), two-thirds of which was owned by the lord of the manor, John Earle Welby of Allington Hall. Noted was the "farm house... in Elizabethan style" [on Bottesford Road] "said to be the ancient manor house". The village cross is mentioned, as is a "copious" chalybeate spring called 'Saltwell' at the south. The ecclesiastical parish of Holy Trinity Church in West Allington was a rectory in the gift of the Lord Chancellor; the incumbent, in lieu of tithes, received 220 acres (0.89 km2) of glebe – an area of land used to support a parish priest – and a rectory house built in 1870 for £1,250. The parish of East Allington, under St James Church (restored in 1855), received a benefice which was combined with that of Sedgebrook, and included 167 acres (0.68 km2) of glebe. The feast day for both Allington parishes was on Old Michaelmas Day. A National School had been built in 1848 by the lord of the manor, and in 1858 a Primitive Methodist chapel was built for £250. Professions and trades listed in 1872 for West Allingon were the parish rector, a tailor, two joiners & undertakers, and four farmers, two of whom were also graziers. Listed for East Allington were a schoolmistress, a shopkeeper, a mason who was also a bricklayer and contractor, a brewer, the licensed victualler of the Welby Arms who was also a farmer and grazier, and five further farmers, one of whom was also a coal & lime merchant, two a grazier, and another a grazier and butcher.[8]
The Welby family was associated with the village from the 18th century onwards [9] until the estate was sold after the Second World War. [10]
During the Second World War, Allington Hall becoming a military hospital. A prisoner-of-war camp in the village held German and later Italian inmates. The estate was subsequently dispersed in 1947.[citation needed]
Amenities
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Holy Trinity Anglican Church belongs to the Saxonwell Group of Churches. It is one of four churches in the group, the others being at Long Bennington, Foston and Sedgebrook.[11]
Allington with Sedgebrook Church of England Primary School is in Marston Lane, Allington.[12] The first school in the village was established on the village green in 1847. The school was moved to its present site in 1906. It was extended in 2003–04.[citation needed]
The village contains the Welby Arms public house,[13] The Old Manor House hotel, a building dating to about 1660, a doctors' surgery, and a 1929-built village hall.
The playing field at Allington is a sports facility owned by the parish council.[14] The Viking Way, Sewstern Lane, passed through the village until 1997, but was diverted to follow a road bridge over the A1.[citation needed]
Local community activities include morris dancing, gardening, a preschool and a women's institute.
There are CallConnect bus services to Grantham. The nearest railway stations are at Bottesford 3 miles (5 km) to the west, and Grantham 5 miles (8 km) to the south-east.
References
[edit]- ^ "Neighbourhood statistics". 2001 census. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ^ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ a b Allington: "History", allingtononline.co.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ "Winnibriggs and Threo Wap" Archived 19 September 2012 at archive.today, A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 16 March 2012
- ^ a b Historic England. "Church of the Holy Trinity (1062909)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
- ^ Pugh, Kate: "Crabbe's First Years in Muston 1789–1792", Boston Living History Project. Retrieved 26 December 2018
- ^ Wilson, John Marius: Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870–72.
- ^ White, William (1872), Whites Directory of Lincolnshire, p. 650
- ^ "Welby family of Allington", National Archives. Retrieved 2 July 2017]
- ^ The Lincolnshire Village Book (reprint 1994 ed.). Newbury, Berkshire: Countryside Books. 1990. p. 12. ISBN 1-85306-077-1.
- ^ Saxonwell Group of Churches Retrieved 2 February 2018
- ^ Allington with Sedgebrook Church of England Primary School. Retrieved 23 June 2011
- ^ "The Village Green, Allington", Geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 23 June 2011
- ^ Allington Playing Field Retrieved 2 February 2018
External links
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Media related to Allington, Lincolnshire at Wikimedia Commons- "Allington Parish Council", Lincolnshire.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 3013
- "Community Web Site"
