Avington, a parish in Berks, on the Kennet river, the Kennet and Avon Canal, and the Newbury branch of the G.W.R., 2 miles W by N from Kintbury station, and 2 1/2 E of Hungerford, which is the post town; money order and telegraph offices, Kintbury and Hungerford. Acreage, 1185; population, 129. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £230. The church is an interesting specimen of Norman architecture, with two Early English windows, and a small Early English spire-bell turret. The chancel is separated from the nave by an arch, richly ornamented with zigzag moulding and a great variety of grotesque heads which has so settled as to look almost like two arches, and springs from enriching piers leaning outwards. Radley and Bowling Green are hamlets in this parish.
