Ablngton-in-the-Clay or Abington-Pigotts, a parish in Cambridgeshire, 5 miles NW from Royston, and 4 from Royston station on the G.N.R. Post town, Royston; money order and telegraph office, Bassingbourn. Acreage, 1237; population, 169. The manor has been held by the family of Pigott since the Conquest. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £312 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of clunch and rubble in the Early English and Decorated styles.