Allington is a

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in north

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, England. It is on the edge of the

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of Chippenham, about north-west of the town centre and about north of the

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towards Bristol. Allington Bar is a farm and small hamlet on the A420. Allington Manor Farmhouse is from the mid 18th century and incorporates fragments of a 17th-century

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; further fragments are within an 18th-century barn. Bolehyde Manor, a Grade II* listed 17th-century manor house and former home of

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, is a short distance north of Allington village. This Allington is not a former

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, but was a

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of the parish of Chippenham. Since 1894 it has been in the

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of Chippenham Without. The settlement was designated as a conservation area in 1998, and in 2002 the area was extended to include the surrounding landscape.

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