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.