Alconbury, Huntingdonshire

Description
Alconbury or Alkmundbury, a parish in Huntingdonshire, on the Alconbury brook, near Ermine Street, 3 miles from Abbots Ripton station on the G.N.R., and 5 NW from Huntingdon, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 3797; population, 654. Alconbury Hill commands a fine view. Alconbury brook rises on the confines of Northamptonshire, and runs about 3 miles south-eastward to the Ouse at Huntingdon. The living includes Alconbury-Weston, and is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £230 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is an ancient building of Barnack rag and rubble in the Early English style. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. Alconbury-Weston is a parish about 1 mile W of Alconbury, united to Alconbury ecclesiastically and forming the parish of Alconbury-cum-Weston. Acreage, 1735; population, 337. Here is a Mission room, built in 1879, and a Baptist chapel. There is one church for the two parishes, restored in 1877, when the tower was entirely rebuilt.