Alkborough

Alkborough is a parish of 458 people in 192 households in North Lincolnshire, England, located near the northern end of The Cliff range of hills overlooking Trent Falls, the confluence of the River Trent and the River Ouse.Alkborough, with the hamlet of Walcot about 1mi south, forms a civil parish which covers about 2875acre. The village was once thought to be the location that the Romans called Aquis, but that name is now usually associated with the town of Buxton in Derbyshire .ToponomyThe place-name Alkborough seems to contain an Old English personal name, Aluca or Alca, + berg (Old English), a hill, a mound; an artificial hill; a tumulus. so 'Alca's hill'. Prof Cameron derived the place-name Walcot from "the cottage, hut or shelter of the Welshman" and suggested that the name might represent an isolated group of Welshmen, identifiable as such in Anglo-Saxon England.Alkborough appears in the Domesday survey of 1086 as Alchebarge.HistoryNeolithicThe earliest evidence of settlement in the area has been found near Kell Well in the form of a stone axe head, flint arrowheads and other finds thought to date from the Neolithic period .