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Priory church (St Mary, St Katherine and All Saints) |
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Edington
Edington shown within Wiltshire |
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| Population | 769 (as of 2001) |
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| OS grid reference | ST926532 |
| Unitary authority | Wiltshire |
| Ceremonial county | Wiltshire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WESTBURY |
| Postcode district | BA13 |
| Dialling code | 01380 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | Great Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| List of places: UK • England • Wiltshire | |
Edington is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about five miles east of Westbury.
The parish includes two principal settlements, Edington village and Tinhead, which lies between the main village and Coulston and contains the parish's only surviving public house, The Paulet Arms. However, many recent residents no longer make a distinction between the two settlements, calling both ‘Edington’.
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The parish was part of the hundred of Whorwellsdown, and is believed to hold a vital place in English history, for it was probably here that King Alfred the Great won a decisive battle against the Danes at the Battle of Ethandun, thus saving the foundations of England. Two miles away is the Westbury White Horse, a famous chalk figure on the side of Westbury Hill, which is visible from Westbury and much of western Wiltshire, although not from Edington.
The origin of the parish church, Edington Priory, is that it formed part of a monastery of the Brothers of Penitence, or Bonshommes.
Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, much of Edington was the manor of ‘Edington Romsey’, a property of Romsey Abbey.
William Gullick, the man who designed the New South Wales Coat of Arms, was baptised here in 1858.[1]
The village is some six miles from the county town of Trowbridge, which, with Devizes and Westbury, is a convenient local shopping centre.
It has a village common. There is one public house. Formerly The Lamb Inn, it reopened in December 2010 as The Paulet Arms and is situated in Tinhead. The coat of arms for the Paulet Arms contains three daggers. As such the name was changed again in November, 2011 to simply The Three Daggers. The new Three Daggers website was launched around the same time. The medieval parish church is the home of the nationally famous annual Edington Music Festival.
Many children from Edington go to the primary school in the neighbouring village of Bratton. Secondary school options include Trowbridge, Lavington, and Matravers School at Westbury.