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Village in Cambridgeshire, England

Conington (Conington All Saints, or "Conington juxta Petriburg") is a village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. Conington lies about 6 miles (10 km) south of Peterborough and 2 miles (3 km) north of Sawtry. It is near the A1(M), part of the Great North Road, which follows the course of the Roman Ermine Street. Conington lies within Huntingdonshire was once one of the historic counties of England.

Conington was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Normancross in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written Coninctune in the Domesday Book of 1086, when there was just one manor at Conington; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £9 and the rent was the same in 1086. The Domesday Book also records that there were 27 households at Conington. These yield population estimates of 94–135. The survey records there was an area of 15 ploughlands at Conington in 1086. The novelist, expurgator and editor Henrietta Maria Bowdler was born in Conington in 1750. In the Second World War, Conington was located next to Royal Air Force Station Glatton. RAF Glatton was constructed to Class "A" standards to support heavy bombers in 1943, as it was to be used by the US Army Air Forces. The 457th Bombardment Group (Heavy) arrived on 21 January 1944. The recognisable tail code of the 457th was the "triangle U" painted on the vertical stabilizers of the Boeing B 17 Flying Fortresses which operated from the air base. The 457th Bomb Group operated from RAF Glatton from January 1944 until 20 April 1945, when it completed its 237th and last combat mission at the conclusion of the war. In All Saints' Church, Conington is a memorial to the 457th Bomb Group.