WALLINGTON, (Hertfordshire) above 1 m. N. E. from Bigrave, consists chiefly of one street, through which a rill of water runs, that is formed by two springs at the upper end of it; but returns into the earth at the lower end, and is no more seen. It was parcelled out heretofore to the mons. of St. Albans, Royston, and Bermondsey; but at length united into one manor, which in the R. of Hen. VI. was in the possession of John Prisot, Ld.-Ch.-Just. of the common-pleas; and after the decease of his widow was sold to the crown; from whence it was conveyed to John Sewster, who held it in the R. of Edw. VI. but afterwards sold it to John Boles; whose descendant sold it, in 1671, to John Breton, vice-chancellor of the U. of Cambridge, who left it by will to Tho. Breton of London, merchant; from whom it descended to his posterity.