Ellington, Huntingdonshire
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 All Saints Church located in Ellington |
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Ellington shown within Cambridgeshire
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| Population | 585 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | TL160718 |
| • London | 57 miles (92 km) |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Huntingdon |
| Postcode district | PE28 |
| Dialling code | 01480 |
| Police | Cambridgeshire |
| Fire | Cambridgeshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
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Ellington is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Ellington lies approximately 4 miles (6 km) west of Huntingdon. Ellington is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. 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 contains 235 households and has a population of 585 residents according to the 2011 census. The civil parish of Ellington also includes Ellington Thorpe, a smaller settlement located approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Ellington itself. Ellington Thorpe is a very small hamlet containing just a few 17th-century cottages and was previously known as 'Sibthorpe'.
In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were recorded in what, since the 12th century, has become known as the Domesday Book. Starting with the king himself, for each landholder within a county there is a list of their estates or manors; and, for each manor, there is a summary of the resources of the manor, the amount of annual rent that was collected by the lord of the manor both in 1066 and in 1086, together with the taxable value.
Ellington was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Leightonstone in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Elintune in the Domesday Book. In 1086 there was just one manor at Ellington; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £10 and the rent was the same in 1086. The lands belonged to the Benedictine abbey at Ramsey.
The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there was 31 households at Ellington. There is no consensus about the average size of a household at that time; estimates range from 3.5 to 5.0 people per household. Using these figures then an estimate of the population of Ellington in 1086 is that it was within the range of 108 and 155 people.
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