ELLINGHAM, a parish in the hundred of FORDINGBRIDGE, New Forest (West) division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 2 miles (N. by W.) from Ringwood, containing 397 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £8. 4. 9., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College. The church is dedicated to St. Mary, In the church-yard is a plain stone commemorating the execution of Alicia Lisle, in her old age, pursuant to a sentence, passed by Judge Jeffreys, on a charge of harbouring known rebels in her mansion of Moyle's Court, which sentence was reversed at the Revolution. The navigable river Avon runs through the parish.