Alkborough, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Alkborough or Aukborough, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, at the mouth of the river Trent, 8 miles N from Frodingham station on the M.S. & L.B., and 10½- W of Barton-upon-Humber, with a post office under Doncaster; money order office, West Halton; telegraph office, Burton-upon-Stather. The parish includes the hamlet of Walcot. Acreage, 3034, with 682 of foreshore and water; population of civil parish, 427; of ecclesiastical, with Wbitton, 684. A high ground, with cliff overhanging the Trent, commands a brilliant view of the basins of the Trent, the Ouse, and the Humber, and forms a strong, natural, military post for overawing great part of the coast of England. A camp, said to be Roman, occurs here, of square outline, 300 feet each side, with vallum and ditch nearly entire, and now bears the name of Countess Close, from a tradition that it was inhabited by a Countess of Warwick. Alkborough is said by Stnkeley to have been the Roman Aquis. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Whitton, in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £250 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln and a private patron alternately. The church is an ancient building of stone in mixed styles. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. Walcot Hall is an ancient mansion with modern additions, surrounded by very beautiful grounds.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Aukborough St. John the Baptist | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Manley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Alkborough:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
---|---|---|---|
1538-1911 | 1765-1770 | 1538-1837 | 1538-1911 |
The register dates from the year 1538.
Churches
Church of England
St. John the Baptist (parish church)
The church of St. John the Baptist is an ancient edifice of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing a clock and 3 bells, on the second of which is the inscription-
"IESU FOR YI MODIR SAKE
SAVE ALL YE SAVLS THAT ME GART MAKE:"
the font is Norman: the church was restored and reseated in oak and the chancel rebuilt in 1887 at a cost of £1,400: there are 220 sittings. The churchyard, as a burial ground, is now closed. The new burial ground, half an acre in extent, was formed in 1905 on land given for the purpose by James Goulton-Constable esq. J.P.
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
There is a Primitive Methodist chapel; erected in 1864.
Wesleyan Chapel
There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1840
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Alkborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Aukborough (St. John the Baptist))
- Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire, 1919
Maps
Online maps of Alkborough are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:
- Grantham Journal
- Grimsby Daily Telegraph
- Lincolnshire Chronicle
- Lincolnshire Echo
- Lincolnshire Free Press
- Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
- Stamford Mercury