[3] Allington is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, when there were eight households and one mill at Alentone, on land held by Amesbury Abbey.

[3] At the southern end of the new section is a pub now called the Old Inn,[7] an early 20th-century rebuilding of an establishment standing there in 1848 or earlier.

[3] James Bell's A new and comprehensive gazetteer of England and Wales (1836) says: ALLINGTON (formerly Aldington), a parish in the hundred of Amesbury, county of Wilts.

The living is a rectory in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, valued in the king's books at £14 13s.

The military aircraft test establishment now known as MoD Boscombe Down encroaches on the northwest part of the parish.

There was a small airfield on Boscombe Down in the First World War, which was reopened in 1930 as a bomber base and then repurposed in 1939 as an aircraft research and testing station.

[12][13] Nearby, the former rectory began as a hall house in the 15th century and is now Grade II* listed.