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Alne, a village, a township, and a parish in the N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on an affluent of the Ouse, and on the N.E.R., 13 miles NW by N of York; it has a station on the railway, and a post office under Easingwold. Acreage, 2262; population of the civil parish, 439 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Aldwark, 1449. The parish includes also the townships of Youlton, Aldwark, Tollerton, Flawith, and Tholthorpe. A chief residence is Alne Hall, the seat of the Swainston-Strangways family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York, and includes the curacy of Aldwark; value, £400. The church is Norman, and has a carved oaken pulpit and a Norman font. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
