| Name | Ellington |
| Alt names | Elintune | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 141 | | Ellington Thorpe | source: hamlet in parish | | Sibthorpe | source: former name of Ellington Thorpe |
| Type | Ancient parish, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.333°N 0.3°W |
| Located in | Huntingdonshire, England ( - 1965) |
| Also located in | Huntingdon and Peterborough, England (1965 - 1974) | | Cambridgeshire, England (1974 - ) |
| See also | Leightonstone Hundred, Huntingdonshire, England | hundred in which it was located | | Huntingdon Rural, Huntingdonshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1894-1974 | | Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England | district municipality of which it has been part since 1974 |
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Until 1965 Ellington was located in the County of Huntingdonshire. After mergers in 1965 and 1974 the county became part of Cambridgeshire.
Ellington is located 4 miles (6 km) west of Huntingdon in the Huntingdonshire District, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire. The civil parish covers an area of 2,700 acres (1,100 hectares); much of it is grassland with some small woods in the south of the parish.
The village had 235 households and a population of 585 at the 2011 UK census. The civil parish also includes Ellington Thorpe, a smaller settlement 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Ellington with a few 17th-century cottages, previously known as Sibthorpe.
Ellington was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Leightonstone in Huntingdonshire, by which time there was already a church and a priest at Ellington.
Much of the land in the parish was enclosed in 1774.
The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).
- "ELLINGTON, a parish in the [registration] district and county of Huntingdon[shire]; on an affluent of the river Ouse, 5 miles W of Huntingdon [railway] station. Post town: Brampton, under Huntingdon. Acres: 2,910. Real property: £3,956. Population: 413. Houses: 95. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value: £168. Patron: St. Peter's College, Cambridge. The church is good; and there are a Baptist chapel, and charities £56.
Research Tips
- Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS
- The Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society has transcribed the parish registers for all the ancient parishes of Huntingdonshire and these can be purchased from the Society as pdfs.
- A History of the County of Huntingdon in 3 volumes from British History Online (Victoria County Histories). This is by far the most complete history of the parishes of the county to be found online. The chapters are ordered by the divisions of the county called hundreds, but each chapter is linked to the volume's content page. Volume 2 (published 1932) covers Hurstingstone and Toseland hundreds (index of parishes); Leightonstone and Norman Cross Hundreds (index of parishes) are found in Volume 3 (published 1936). Volume 1 is a part-volume describing the religious houses of the county.
- GENUKI has a page on Huntingdonshire and pages for each of the ecclesiastical or ancient parishes in the county. These give references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area.
- The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date.
- A Vision of Britain through Time, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions.
- Map of Huntingdonshire divisions in 1888 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
- Map of Huntingdonshire divisions in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
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