Description

Alwalton, a village and a parish in Huntingdonshire, on the river Nen, 2 miles SW of Overton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5 WSW of Peterborough, under which there is a post office; money order and telegraph office, New Flitton. Acreage, 974; population, 286. It contains the mansion of Alwalton Hall., the seat of the Fitzwilliam family. The manor was given anciently to the monks of Peterborough, and transferred by Henry VIII. to the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. It now belongs to the Fitzwilliam family, who exchanged another parish for this in 1868. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £150 with residence. The church is partly Norman. There is also a Wesleyan chapel.