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Abington Pigotts is a small village in Cambridgeshire, England about 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Royston, Hertfordshire. ==History== The parish of Abington Pigotts covers an area of . Roughly circular in shape it is surrounded by the parishes of Shingay, Wendy, Bassingbourn, Litlington, and Steeple Morden with its boundaries largely following minor waterways and streams. A settlement from the early Iron Age has been found in the parish, covering around 20 acres a half mile north-west of the church, and was occupied through the Belgic and Roman periods. Pottery from the Anglo-Saxon era has also been found near the site.〔 In early medieval times Abington was sometimes listed as a hamlet of its southern neighbour, Litlington, despite possessing its own church from at least 1200. Listed as ''Abintone'' in the Domesday Book of 1086, the name Abington means "estate associated with a man called Abba". In medieval times the village was variously known as ''Abington by Shingay'', after its neighbouring village, and ''Abington in the Clay'', from the heaviness of its soil, to distinguish it from The Abingtons in the south east of Cambridgeshire. The village became ''Abington Pigots'' by the 17th century after the ''Pykot'' or ''Pigott'' family that owned the manor from the 15th to the 19th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names )〕〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abington Pigotts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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