page_title: Ettington
section_title: Economic and social history
hierarchical_section_title: Ettington / Economic and social history
caption_attribution_description: Ettington Post Office, Warwickshire ...
context_page_description: Ettington is a village and civil parish about 5.5 miles south-east of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,171.
  The present village is on the A422 main road linking Stratford and Banbury. The A429 main road linking Warwick and Cirencester used to run through the village, and now uses a bypass just west of it. The Fosse Way Roman road crosses the A422 0.6 miles east of the village.
context_section_description: The composer and organist Dr William Croft (1678–1727) was born in Ettington and baptised in the 13th-century parish church.
  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 railway station was at Thornton, 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village. Under The Reshaping of British Railways the station was closed in 1963 followed by the line in 1965.
caption: Ettington village shop and post office
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