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Village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England

Allington is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, 3 mile (5 km) north west of Grantham. The 2001 census gave a parish population of 728 in 329 households. The population increased to 897 in 422 households in the 2011 census.

Some evidence has been found of settlement in the Neolithic period. Roman artefacts have also been found nearby. The population at the time of the Domesday Book was about 300. At the time of the Norman conquest the name of the village was Adelinctune. It belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo. Allington's Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. East and West Allington parishes were combined in 1896 and St James's Church in East Allington, the smaller building of the two, was demolished. His Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir was a pioneering study of the district. English Heritage gives the date of Crabbe's Allington incumbency as 1790 to 1814, but he was an absentee for most of the remaining years. The Welby family was associated with the village from the 18th century onwards until the estate was sold after the Second World War. During the Second World War, Allington Hall becoming a military hospital. A prisoner of war camp in the village held German and later Italian inmates. The estate was subsequently dispersed in 1947.

Holy Trinity Anglican Church belongs to the Saxonwell Group of Churches. It is one of four churches in the group, the others being at Long Bennington, Foston and Sedgebrook. Allington with Sedgebrook Church of England Primary School is in Marston Lane, Allington. The first school in the village was established on the village green in 1847. The school was moved to its present site in 1906. It was extended in 2003–04. The village contains the Welby Arms public house, The Old Manor House hotel, a building dating to about 1660, a doctors' surgery, and a 1929 built village hall. The playing field at Allington is a sports facility owned by the parish council. The Viking Way, Sewstern Lane, passed through the village until 1997, but was diverted to follow a road bridge over the A1. Local community activities include morris dancing, gardening, a preschool and a women's institute. There are CallConnect bus services to Grantham. The nearest railway stations are at Bottesford 3 mile (5 km) to the west, and Grantham 5 mile (8 km) to the south east.