Ettington is a village and civil parish about 5.5 miles (9 km) south-east of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England.
The A429 main road linking Warwick and Cirencester used to run through the village, and now uses a bypass just west of it.
The toponym "Ettington" is derived from the Old English words ea for water and don for ascending ground or meadow.
The present village is what used to be called Upper Ettington, and is on higher ground about 1+1⁄4 miles (2 km) to the northeast.
[3] Lower Ettington was an estate of 17 hides whose Norman overlord was Henry de Ferrers.
[6] In the parish 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Upper Ettington was the manor and village of Thornton.
Evelyn Shirley had Lower Ettington village demolished and the medieval preaching cross removed to clear his deer park for landscaping.
The rest of the original church, including its broad and distinctive tower, survives as a roofless ruin.
John Briant of Hertford cast the tenor bell in 1803, five years after St Thomas' church was built.
[15] The Society of Friends had members in Ettington by 1664 and their founder George Fox preached at Lambcote farm in the parish in 1678.
[3] The composer and organist Dr William Croft (1678–1727) was born in Ettington and baptised in the 13th-century parish church.
[3] The East and West Junction Railway from Fenny Compton to Stratford-upon-Avon was built through the area and opened on 1 July 1873.
Ettington Rovers is an amateur football club that plays in the Leamington Spa and District Sunday League.