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.R., and 10 1/2 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 Whitton, 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 Stukeley 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.