ELLINGHAM, a parish in Ringwood district, Hants; on the river Avon, near the boundary with Dorset, 2½ miles N by W of Ringwood r. station. It contains Moyles Court, Rockford, -Linwood, Highwood, Linbrook, and part of Blashford; and its post town is Ringwood. Acres, 2, 545. Real property, £2, 707. Pop., 306. Houses, 64. The property is divided among a few. A cell to St. Saviours, in Normandy, was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by William de Salaries; and given, by Henry VI., to Eton College. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £159.* Patron, Eton College. The church is ancient, but good; and contains a monument to Lady Lisle of Moyles Court, who was beheaded for harbouring rebels after the battle of Sedgemoor. Charities, £5.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))