Arrington Name According to the Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names, Arrington comes from the tribe of Earn(a)'s people. The tun means of Earn(a)'s people. Ermine Street is of the same derivative and is located within the English town, Arrington. Ermine street can be traced back to at least 955 AD. Many scholars believe the Ermine Street road was built during the Roman occupation before 400 AD. Arrington England Arrington is located in the Wetherley Hundred in the county of Cambridgeshire. It is the most westerly parish in the Wetherley hundred and lies on Ermine Street about 10 miles southwest of Cambridge. It is long, narrow, and rectangular in shape and contains 1,407 acres. The church, St Nicholas, is 250 yards west of Ermine Street. St. Nicholas was present at the time of the Norman invasion in 1066. The town, Arrington, Cambridgeshire, England, also existed in 1066 when Duke William of Normandy conquered England. William had himself declared king and twenty years after, in 1086, caused an inventory to be taken of the land and other property. The inventory included the town name, who owned it before 1066 as well as at 1066, how many hides, how many ploughs, how many villagers, cottagers and slaves, how many free men and Freemen, how much woodland, meadow and pasture, how many mills and fishponds, how much was added or taken away, what the total value was, how much each free man or Freeman had. The inventory included the value before 1066 (when King William gave it), in 1066, and its potential future value. In addition to basing tax levies on the recorded inventory, William's grandson, Bishop Henry of Winchester, believed the book's purpose was so every man could know his rights and not usurp another's. Because it was the final authoritative register of rightful possession, the natives called it Domesday Book, by analogy from the Day of Judgement. That was why it was carefully arranged by Counties, and numbered consecutively by landholders within Counties. The Domesday Book describes Old English society under new management, in minute statistical detail. Foreign lords had taken over, but little else changed. The chief landholders and those who held from them are named, and the rest whose houses might be clustered together or dispersed among their fields. Very many holdings, described by the Norman term manerium (manor), greatly varied in size and structure. Some maneriums were tiny farmsteads, some vast holdings. Many lords exercised their own jurisdiction and other rights, termed soca, whose meaning still eludes exact definition. It appears there were two primary ownership divisions in Arrrington whose owners also claimed the Arrington surname. Records as early as 942 show that Theodred, bishop of London, devised his estate at Arrington to the king as part of his heriot. In 1066 Levva held one-half hide of Eddeva the fair, she may have been Leva wife of Alfsige of Langworth (Lincs). The land was passed to Count Alan of Brittany, and in 1086 there were two major landowners, Count Alan and Earl Roger. There were 17 people counted in Arrington in 1086. England built a hospital in Arrington during World War II. Arrington Virginia In 1990 when I first learned about Arrington, Virginia, it had a population of about 350. It's about 25 miles southwest of Jefferson's Montecello. Arrington had one post office with the name Arrington Town written across it, a store, and a warehouse where fresh food was stored. As people drive into the town they can see the warehouse and several houses. In order to see the store and post office, one must go across a small bridge. Arrington Town was named for the family of William Arrington who were station agents on the Southern Railroad for years. There was a battle not too far from Arrington Station during the Civil War, so we know it existed before the 1860s.