Ablington, Wiltshire Explained

Country:England
Official Name:Ablington
Civil Parish:Figheldean
Static Image Name:Ablington cottage - geograph.org.uk - 175685.jpg
Coordinates:51.222°N -1.773°W
Unitary England:Wiltshire
Lieutenancy England:Wiltshire
Region:South West England
Constituency Westminster:Devizes
Post Town:Salisbury
Postcode District:SP4
Postcode Area:SP
Dial Code:01980
Os Grid Reference:SU159479

Ablington is a small village in the English county of Wiltshire, on the River Avon, close to the village of Figheldean and about 3.5miles north of the town of Amesbury.

Barrow Clump, a prehistoric site re-used as a burial ground for an Anglo-Saxon village, is some 700 metres east of Ablington.

The settlement was recorded as Alboldintone in the Domesday Book. Ablington farmhouse is an 18th-century thatched building, extended in c. 1880 and at later dates.

For local government purposes, Ablington is part of Figheldean civil parish.

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