Alkerton or Awkerington, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the verge of the county, 6 miles WNW of Banbury railway station. Post town, Banbury; money order office, Tysoe; telegraph office, Wroxton. Acreage of parish, 742; population, 119. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £120 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Jersey. The church contains, in its external courses, some curious figures of acolytes censing, and was completely restored in 1890. The learned but unfortunate mathematician, Thomas Lydiat, who lived 1572-1646, was a native of the parish, and for some time its rector.