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Allington (other)
Allington may refer to: Places in England * Allington, Dorset * Allington, Hampshire * Allington, Kent * Allington, Lincolnshire * Allington, Kennet, Wiltshire, near Devizes * Allington, North Wiltshire, near Chippenham * Allington, Salisbury, Wiltshire * East Allington, Devon People * Bill Allington (1903–1966), American baseball player * Edward Allington (1951–2017), English artist and sculptor * Richard Allington, American academic Other uses * HMS ''Allington Castle'', a 1944 Royal Navy corvette * Allington Pippin, an apple cultivar See also * ''The Small House at Allington ''The Small House at Allington'' is a novel by English novelist Anthony Trollope. It first appeared as a serial in the 1862 July to December edition of the ''Cornhill Magazine'', and ended its run in the July to December edition of the followin ...'', an 1864 novel by Anthony Trollope * Alington (other) {{Disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allington, Dorset
Allington is a neighbourhood of Bridport in Dorset, England, immediately north-west of Bridport town centre on the west bank of the River Brit. Formerly a separate village and civil parish, Allington and Bridport had grown to be contiguous by the end of the 19th century. Allington Hill rises to above the town; it is managed by the Woodland Trust. The hill is characteristic of the Upper Greensand hills and ridges found in the Marshwood and Powerstock Vales national character area, National Character Area. In 1086 in the Domesday Book Allington was recorded as ''Adelingtone''; it had 21 households, 3 ploughlands, of meadow and one mill. It was in Godderthorne Hundred, Goderthorn Hundred and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Turstin son of Rolf. The parish church at North Allington, dedicated to St Swithun, was designed by Charles Wallis of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester and built in 1826–27, and is a Grade II* listed building. It is in Neoclassical architecture, classical sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allington, Hampshire
Allington is a small settlement in the Borough of Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, located at the northern extremity of the civil parish of West End. History Allington was recorded as ''Ellatune ''in the eleventh century and in the thirteenth as ''Aldington''. It is recorded in the Domesday Survey as ''Alditona'', being held by William Alis and containing two mills and a church. With 27 households it was one of the largest 40% of settlements recorded in the Domesday Book. The land was granted to Alis in 1204 by Godfrey de Lucy, the Bishop of Winchester, with pannage rights given to the Priory of St Denys, which had just been founded. William Alis' descendants continued to hold the land, with Roger Alis recorded as the owner in 1223 and his son Thomas receiving the rents from the manor with his father's consent. Another William Alis possessed the estate until he died in 1304 without male issue, leaving the property to his two daughters with his widow retaining a life interest. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allington, Kent
Allington is an almost entirely modern village situated alongside the sides of the A20 road north-west of Maidstone in Kent, England. It is part of the built-up area of Maidstone. Arthur Mee praised it in the 20th century, using the analogy that "if Kent is the garden of England, Allington is like an English rose set in the midst of it."'''' History The name Allington, which is shared by a hamlet near Lenham, is derived from the Old English ''tun'' farmstead; it comes via eleventh-century ''Elentun'' and was connected with a man called Ælla. It has been suggested that Celtic Britons had built a moated village on the site. Allington Castle was originally built in the 11th century. In 1281 the present stone castle was built, which was converted to a mansion in the 15th century. In 1492 the castle came into the possession of the Wyatt family. By the mid-19th century it was derelict, but was restored in 1905; in 1951 it was taken over by the Carmelite order. Today it is owned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allington, Lincolnshire
Allington is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, north-west of Grantham. The 2001 census gave a parish population of 728 in 329 households. The population increased to 897 in 422 households in the 2011 census. History 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.Allington: "History" allingtononline.co.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2018. At the time of the the name of the village was Adelinctune. It belonged to the historical |
Allington, North Wiltshire
Allington is a hamlet in north Wiltshire, England. It is on the edge of the market town of Chippenham, about north-west of the town centre and about north of the A420 road towards Bristol. Allington Bar is a farm and small hamlet on the A420. Allington Manor Farmhouse is from the mid 18th century and incorporates fragments of a 17th-century manor house; further fragments are within an 18th-century barn. Bolehyde Manor, a Grade II* listed 17th-century manor house and former home of Camilla Parker-Bowles, is a short distance north of Allington village. This Allington is not a former parish, but was a tithing of the parish of Chippenham. Since 1894 it has been in the civil parish of Chippenham Without. The settlement was designated as a conservation area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Most of the west boundary of the parish is also the county boundary with Hampshire. 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, when there were eight households and one mill at ''Alentone'', on land held by Amesbury Abbey. By 1377, Allington was still a small village, with 35 poll-tax payers. The settlement developed where a minor road from Winterslow forded the river and crossed the road from Salisbury; the Winterslow road was obliterated in the early 20th century by the military training area. The Salisbury road went through the centre of the village, passing east of the church, until 1835 wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Allington
East Allington is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England, south of Halwell and just off the A381 road. It lies about from Kingsbridge and about from Totnes. The coast at Slapton, Devon, Slapton Sands is about to the south-east. Also in the parish is the hamlet of The Mounts, about away. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Halwell, Blackawton, Slapton, Devon, Slapton, Stokenham, Frogmore and Sherford, Buckland-Tout-Saints and Woodleigh, Devon, Woodleigh. Its population at 2001 was 596, up from 396 in 1901. The village is also part of the electoral ward named Allington and Loddiswell with a population at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census of 2,265. Historically, East Allington formed part of Stanborough Hundred (country subdivision), Hundred, and for ecclesiastical purposes, it falls within Woodleigh Deanery. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, overlooks the village from a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Allington
William Baird Allington (October 26, 1903 – August 17, 1966) was an American minor league baseball player and manager. Listed at 5' 9" and 160 pounds, Allington batted and threw right-handed. He was born in St. Clair County, Michigan. Playing career Allington spent 31 years in baseball as a player (15), coach (4) and manager (12). He started his professional career as an outfielder, playing from 1926 through 1940 with ten teams of four different leagues. Between 1926 and 1934, he played in the Blue Ridge League (1926–27), Western League (1926–28, 1930–32), Southern Association (1929, 1933–34) and Pacific Coast League (1929–30). He also played nine years in the California Winter League circuit (1932–40). Allington hit .300 or more in eight of his nine minor league years career. His most productive season came in 1931, when he led the Western League hitters with a .374 batting average, even though he was left off of the All-Star Team after leading the lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Allington
Edward Thomas Allington (24 June 1951 – 21 September 2017) was a British artist and sculptor, best known for his part in the 1980s New British Sculpture movement. Born at Troutbeck Bridge, Westmorland, to Ralph Allington and his wife, Evelyn, Allington studied at Lancaster College of Art from 1968 to 1971, at the Central School of Art and Design in London from 1971 to 1974Henry Meyric Hughes (2002)''Blast to freeze: British art in the 20th century'' Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz; New York: Distributed Art Publishers. . p. 328. Retrieved August 2013. and at the Royal College of Art from 1983 to 1984. He was a fellow at Exeter College of Art and Design 1975–77. He won the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Prize in 1989, was Gregory Fellow in Sculpture at University of Leeds 1991–93 and Research Fellow in Sculpture at Manchester Metropolitan University in 1993. He received a fine art award to work at the British School at Rome in 1997. His work was included in the group exhibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Allington
Richard (Dick) L. Allington is an American scholar who was a professor of education at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville from 2005 until his retirement in 2017. Allington served as the president of the International Reading Association (IRA), as president of the National Reading Conference, and as a member of the International Reading Association board of directors. Biography Allington grew up on a dairy farm in rural Michigan and attended a one-room schoolhouse through 6th grade. He graduated from Cedar Springs High School in 1965 and went on to Western Michigan University to become a teacher. After graduating from Western Michigan University in 1968 with his Elementary Education and Social Science degree, he became a 4th and 5th-grade classroom teacher. Experiencing difficulty in dealing with students needing remedial reading instruction, he completed his Master of Arts in Reading degree in 1969, and moved on to become to the Title I director for Belding Area Schools ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Allington Castle
HMS ''Allington Castle'' was one of 44 built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was named after Allington Castle in Kent. Completed in 1944, she served as a convoy escort during the war and on fishery patrol duties in 1945–1947, being sold for scrap in 1958. Design and description The Castle-class corvette was a stretched version of the preceding Flower class, enlarged to improve seakeeping and to accommodate modern weapons. The ships displaced at standard load and at deep load. They had an overall length of , a beam of and a deep draught of . They were powered by a pair of triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The engines developed a total of and gave a maximum speed of . The ''Castle''s carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of at . The ships' complement was 99 officers and ratings. The Castle-class ships were equipped with a single QF Mk XVI gun forward, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
