Ellingham, Hampshire

Description
Ellingham, a parish in Hants, on the river Avon, near the boundary with Dorset, 2- miles N by "VV" of Ringwood station on the L. & S.W.R. It contains Linwood, Rockford, Highwood, Linbrook, and Blashford, and its post town and money order and telegraph office is Kingwood. Acreage, 2559; population, 260. A priory, attached to St Saviour's in Normandy, was founded here in the time of Henry II., by William de Salariis, and given by Henry VI. to Eton College. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Norman-ton. The church is ancient, but good, and contains an old wainscoted pew that used to belong to Lady Lisle of Moyles Court, who was beheaded for harbouring rebels after the battle of Sedgemoor. The church was well restored and enlarged in 1885.