Elvington - Bridge Small File
Elvington may refer to the following places in England: *Elvington, Kent * Elvington, North Yorkshire **RAF Elvington Royal Air Force Elvington or more simply RAF Elvington is a former Royal Air Force station which operated from the beginning of the Second World War until 1992 located at Elvington, Yorkshire, England. History Royal Air Force use The station ...

Elvington, Kent
Elvington is a small pit village on a ridge in between Canterbury and Dover in the county of Kent in Southeast England. Located near Eythorne , Elvington was mostly built in the early 20th century to serve the nearby coal mine at Tilmanstone, as were other Kent Coalfield villages including Snowdown, Aylesham and Betteshanger."Introduction to the project"
, Coalfields Heritage Initiative Kent website

History

The name Elvington derives from the meaning "farmstead of someone named Ælfwine";''Oxford Dictionary of British Placenames'', A.D.Mills, Oxford University Press a manor or farm of that name reportedly once stood at what is ...
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Elvington, North Yorkshire
Elvington is a village and civil parish approximately south-east of York, England, on the B1228 York- Howden road. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,212, it increased to 1,239 at the 2011 Census. The River Derwent forms part of the parish boundary and the historic Sutton Bridge connects Elvington with Sutton upon Derwent. The village has three separate large industrial estates including a site for Yara International, a Norwegian chemical company. Elvington was in the East Riding of Yorkshire until local government boundary changes in 1974, when it became part of the Selby District in North Yorkshire. In 1996 it became part of the City of York unitary authority. History The village is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'', which states that in 1086 Ulfketill had six carucates of land taxable, where three ploughs were possible. There is a mention of the church, which is Norman in origin and exists in part today. Richard Neville, 16th Earl of W ...
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