Ivington () is a village in the county of

Herefordshire Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire ...

, England, approximately 13 miles (21 km) north of

Hereford Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a populatio ...

. It is about 2 miles (3 km) south-west of its

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Leominster. The population as of the 2011 census was included within

Leominster Leominster ( ) is a market town in Herefordshire, England, at the confluence of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater. The town is north of Hereford and south of Ludlow in Shropshire. With a population of 11,700, Leominster is t ...

. Ivington has a small church dedicated to St. John, and a

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Primary School.

Toponymy

Ivington was recorded as ''Ivintune'' in the 1068

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, the name deriving from the Old English for "estate associated with a man called Ifa".

Geography

The village lies approximately 13 miles (21 km) north of

and 2 miles (3 km) south-west of its

, Leominster. Surrounding villages include Ivington Green, Stag Batch, Newtown and Brierley. Ivington lies just south of the River Arrow.

Notable people

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Florence Nightingale David Florence Nightingale David, also known as F. N. David (23 August 1909 – 23 July 1993) was an English statistician. She was head of the Statistics Department at the University of California, Riverside between 1970 – 77 and her research inte ...

was born in Ivington in 1909. Television presenter and writer

Monty Don Montagu Denis Wyatt Don (born George Montagu Don; 8 July 1955) is a British horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer who is best known as the lead presenter of the BBC gardening television series '' Gardeners' World''. Born in Germany and rai ...

lives in Ivington.

References

{{authority control Villages in Herefordshire