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Ellington

Originally known as Elintune (xi cent.), Elinton, Elinton Abbatis (xii - xiii cent.), Elyngton (xii cent.), Ellington Thorpe, Sibberthorpe, Elyngton cum Sibethorp (xiii cent.), Siberthorpe (xii - xvi cent.), Sibthorpe (xvi - xviii cent.).

Ellington is a curiously shaped parish. From a central block containing the village is a long tongue of land projecting west, and a shorter tongue running out to the east. The Ellington Brook flows from west to east through the parish forming its southern boundary of the western tongue of land and, skirting the north of he village, joins the Alconbury Brook to the east. Another stream, rising in the parish of Spaldwick, flows to the south of the village of Ellington into Ellington Brook about one mile east of the village.

The land rises from these streams where it is about 55 ft. above sea-level to 165 ft. at Belton's Hill and 161 ft. at Grove Barn on the north and 172 ft at Ellington Hill on the south side.

The road from Huntingdon to Thrapston passes through the parish. The earliest Manor House was originally in the hands of tenants of Ramsey Abbey, but this manor no longer exists. Ellington Thorpe, formerly Silberthorpe, is a hamlet on the road called Breaks Road leading south from the village. It now consists of a few 17th Century cottages.

Once there was much woodland in the parish but now three-quarters of it is grassland. The arable land grows chiefly wheat and beans; the soil and sub-soil are Oxford clay.

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Cemeteries

Monumental Inscriptions for Ellington have not yet been recorded by the Huntingdonshire FHS.

Census

Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.

The full 1841 Census of Ellington Parish is available as fiche set C89 from the Huntingdonshire FHS.

The full 1851 Census of Ellington Parish is available as fiche set C39 from the Huntingdonshire FHS.

A Surname Index of the 1881 Census of the Huntingdon Registration District, in which Ellington was enumerated (RG11/1602, Folios 80a - 88a), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is available as fiche C3, from the Huntingdonshire FHS.

A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Spaldwick sub-District of the Huntingdon Registration District (RG12/1236) in which Ellington was enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, has also been produced by the Huntingdonshire FHS (as Fiche C8). This is available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.

Church History

OS Grid Square TL 160719

The church of All Saints consists of a chancel, nave with north aisle, south aisle, west tower and spire, and north and south porches. The walls are of rubble with pebble rubble with stone dressings and the roofs are covered with lead, slates and tiles.

The church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, but nothing earlier than the 13th Century remains and of this period only the chancel arch is in-situ. The walls of the chancel probably remained, much altered, until 1863, and the nave was probably of the same length as at present for the south aisle was added or rebuilt early in the 14th century. At the end of that century the tower was added or rebuilt and, in about 1400, the nave arcades, north aisle and north porch were rebuilt. The south wall of the south aisle was largely rebuilt towards the end of the 15th century when new windows were inserted in its east and west walls. The clearstory was added to the nave about the same time.

The south porch was built in the 16th century. The chancel was rebuilt in 1863, the spire restored in 1899 and the nave roof in 1907-8.

Church Records

Baptisms: 1608-1895 (indexed transcriptions).
Banns: 1783-1798 (indexed transcriptions) and 1823-1993.
Marriages: 1608-1719 and 1727-1956 (both indexed transcriptions).
Burials: 1608-1722 and 1727-1967. (both indexed transcriptions).
Bishop's Transcripts: 1604-5, 1607-8, 1610, 1612, 1618-19, 1626-7/1686-8, 1690-1, 1695, 1699, 1700-2, 1704-7, 1709, 1711-12, 1715-17, 1721, 1723, 1725-7, 1729-33, 1748-9, 1751-5, 1785-1813/1813-18, 1820-9, 1831-4, 1839-41, 1843-9, 1851-6, 1858.

These are available in the Huntingdon Records Office.

The Huntingdonshire Marriage Indexes include marriages from this parish. These are, at present, issued in alphabetical listings in series: 1601-1700, and 1701-1754, and are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS