Allington, Salisbury


Allington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about southeast of Amesbury and northeast of Salisbury. The parish includes the village of Boscombe; both villages are on the River Bourne and the A338 road.

History

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.
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In 1934 the neighbouring small parish of Boscombe was added to Allington parish.

Religious sites

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.
The church at Allington was built in 1851 on the site of an older church, incorporating 12th-century material. It was declared redundant in 2010.

Railways

The Andover to Salisbury railway opened across the southeast of the parish in 1857. In the north of the parish, the Amesbury and Military Camp Light Railway was built in 1901 to serve Bulford Camp, with a station at Newton Tony where the line crossed the Allington road. This line closed to passengers in 1952, with goods services continuing until 1963.

Amenities

There was no school in Allington village. Early schools at Boscombe were replaced by a new building in 1902 which continued in use until 1972; the nearest primary school is at Newton Tony. Allington has a pub, the Old Inn.