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Toponymy

The place-name Alkborough seems to contain an

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personal name, ''Aluca'' or ''Alca'', + ''berg '' (Old English), a hill, a mound; an artificial hill; a tumulus, so 'Alca's hill'. 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''.

History

Neolithic

The earliest evidence of settlement in the area has been found near Kell Well (a spring on the ridge to the south of Alkborough and the west of Walcot) in the form of a stone axe head, flint arrowheads and other finds thought to date from the

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period (4000 BC–2351 BC).

Bronze Age

Artifacts including a beaker, dating from the early

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(2350 BC–1501 BC), were unearthed in 1920, in the grounds of Walcot Hall.

Iron Age

During the late

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age ( Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age ( Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostl ...

, Alkborough lay within the territory of the

Corieltauvi The Corieltauvi (also the Coritani, and the Corieltavi) were a tribe of people living in Britain prior to the Roman conquest, and thereafter a '' civitas'' of Roman Britain. Their territory was in what is now the English East Midlands. They were ...

tribe.

Roman

Following Roman invasion of the area, some time after AD43, the local Corieltauvi tribe became a Roman '' civitas''. Pottery sherds dating from the 1st to the 4th century AD have been found in the fields south of Countess Close. These finds, along with a pot containing a small hoard of

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, which was unearthed in the grounds of Walcot Hall, indicate the possibility of a

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Settlement here. A geophysical survey taken in 2003 showed clear evidence of a Romano-British ladder settlement.

Medieval

The village is the site of the former Alkborough Benedictine Priory Cell. It was founded before 1052, when it is recorded as being given by its founder, Thorold, High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, to

Spalding Priory Spalding Priory was a small Benedictine house in the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and St Nicholas. It was founded as a cell of Croyland Abbey, in 1052, by Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife, Godiva, Count ...

. It was a small priory, being a cell of only three monks, a secular chaplain, and a prior. The cell was dependent on Spalding Priory from 1052 to 1074, then its staffing levels were reduced, until 1220, when it ceased to exist as a monastic house and was abandoned. It was located at , which is in the south of the village in the grounds of College Farm. A Field Investigator's comment from 17 February 1964 states that there is no material evidence of antiquity. Alkborough Priory Cell is included in the

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(Number: SE 82 SE 7, Monument Number: 61223).

Wartime

Bombing range

Alkborough Flats was home to a

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during the Second World War. The following is a summary of an oral history provided by an Alkborough resident who was school age during Second World War:

The bombing range itself took the form of a chalk marker on Alkborough Flats, and two observation posts positioned on the ridge overlooking the target. An RAF detachment from RAF Elsham Wolds, including two sergeants, were billeted in the southern of the two observation posts. Bombers would take off from Elsham, and drop smoke bombs on the target. Following a bombing run, a bearing on the bomb's landing site was taken from each observation post, and the position of the site calculated using triangulation. During one bombing run, a horse was killed, and another bomb narrowly missed a group of children sledging. After the war, agricultural workers ploughing on the Flats regularly reported releasing smoke. During the establishment of the Alkborough Flats Tidal Defence Scheme in 2005/2006, a large quantity of World War II ordnance was removed from the site under supervision of bomb disposal officers. Currently, very little remains of the southern observation post, though an entire wall of the northern observation post is still standing (including the observation windows).

The southern observation post was located at , and the northern at . They are both accessible to the public via a public footpath. The location of the chalk target marker is not known exactly, but was somewhere to the west of the new

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, which is located at .

Defensive structures

A number of Second World War defensive structures were also in the Alkborough area, including: *Three

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batteries. One of these (Site 3) was located just west of Whitton Road, at . It was staffed by 1 Troop of 323 Searchlight Battery from October 1941. It was established as part of a special deployment of searchlights to defend the Humber Estuary, complementing existing local searchlight batteries). A typical installation of this type comprised a small ring ditch (providing operators with some shelter during an air raid, a predictor emplacement (for calculating the height/range of aircraft), a light anti-aircraft machine gun pit, a generator and hutted accommodation for the crew. This site is included in the

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(Number: SE 82 SE 62, Monument Number: 1500984). *A heavy anti-aircraft battery. It was located just south of West Halton Lane (near Southdale Farm), at , and was listed as 'unarmed' in 1942. This site is included in the

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(Number: SE 82 SE 60, Monument Number: 1473341).

Governance

Lying within the historic county boundaries of

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for centuries, from a very early time, Alkborough formed part of the Manley Wapentake in the North division of

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. Care for the poor of the parish extends back prior to 1765, though after the Poor Law reforms of 1834, Alkborough became part of the

Glanford Brigg Brigg ( /'brɪg/) is a market town in North Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 5,076 in the 2001 UK census, the population increased to 5,626 at the 2011 census. The town lies at the junction of the River Ancholme and east–west tran ...

Poor Law Union. From 1894 until 1974, Alkborough lay within

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.

Population history (1801–2001)

The population history of the area is reported as the following, transcribed from North Lincolnshire Council website.

Conservation Area

The older part of Alkborough, including Julian's Bower, Countess Close, and Walcot, lies within a Conservation Area.

Geography

Alkborough Flats and Trent Falls - geograph

Alkborough is situated on an escarpment formed of Triassic Mudstone, known as The Cliff, which runs roughly north–south. The steep mudstone escarpment is to the west, with a shallow slope to the east formed from shale of the Lower Lias in the

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system.

Alkborough Flats

Alkborough Flats is an area of low-lying arable farmland of nearly situated at the "Confluence of the Rivers" ( Trent Falls) where the Rivers Trent and Ouse join to form the

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. The alluvial plain is now jointly owned by the UK's Environment Agency and

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.

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defences, which were built in the 1950s to protect the area, have been breached to allow water to reclaim the land at high tide and in times of flooding. The project created of new intertidal habitat in the inner part of the Humber Estuary. The new grassland will be managed to encourage

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, with reedbeds, lagoons and grazing areas. Alkborough Flats is the first coastal realignment site to be developed as part of the

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line Management Plan. This "

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" strategy should lessen the risks of flooding in low-lying towns along the Ouse and Trent by realigning existing flood defences to create compensatory intertidal habitat around the estuary. The relatively new island of Whitton Island in the Humber Estuary falls partly within the parish.

Walcot

Walcot is an outlying

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situated to the south of Alkborough, and within the same parish.

Landmarks

Julian's Bower

Close to the Cliff edge is Julian's Bower, a unicursal

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, 43 feet (13 m) across, of indeterminate age. Although referred to as a maze, being unicursal (having only one way in and one path through) it is more accurately a

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. According to Arthur Mee's book ''Lincolnshire'' the maze was cut by monks in the 12th century, but White's ''Lincolnshire Directory'' of 1872 maintains that it was constructed in Roman times as part of a game. Others think that while the feature is of Roman origin, it was later used by the

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Church for some sort of penitential purpose and only reverted to its former use as an amusement or diversion, after the

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. Firm documentary evidence of its existence only seems to date from 1697 however, when it was noticed, on his travels, by the

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antiquary

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. In case the maze becomes overgrown or otherwise indistinct, its pattern is recorded, in a 19th-century stained glass church window, on the floor of the church

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and also on the

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of James Goulton Constable, which is in Alkborough cemetery. Julian's Bower is a

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.

Countess Close

Countess Close (National Monument No. 32622; North Lincolnshire Sites and Monuments Record (NLSMR) No. 44) is a rectangular earthwork lying a few yards to the south of Julian's Bower. It measures approx. 80 m × 90 m internally. It was recorded by the 18th century antiquary, William Stukeley on a visit to the area whilst researching his book ''Itinerarium Curiosum'' (or ''Observations From A Journey''). He thought Countess Close to be a Roman Fort, as did the earlier

Abraham de la Pryme Abraham de la Pryme (15 January 1671 – 12 June 1704) was an English antiquary. Life Abraham de la Pryme was born to French Huguenot parents, Matthias de la Pryme and Sarah Smague (or Smagge) at Hatfield in 1671. Despite his father's desire ...

. However, a 2003 archaeological project carried out by Humber Field Archaeology concluded that, despite evidence of a

Romano-British The Romano-British culture arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia. It arose as a fusion of the imported Roman culture with that of the indigenous Britons, ...

ladder settlement running south along the ridge from Countess Close, it is probable that the earthwork is the remains of a Medieval fortified manor house. It is thought that Countess Close is named for a Saxon heiress called Countess Lucy of Leicester,

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and Chester. She inherited the land from her husband Ivo Taillebois (who in the time of

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was Lord of

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), who was given the land by

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. Following Lucy's death, Countess Close passed to her son, who then gave the land to

Spalding Priory Spalding Priory was a small Benedictine house in the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and St Nicholas. It was founded as a cell of Croyland Abbey, in 1052, by Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife, Godiva, Count ...

in 1147. Countess Close is a

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.

St John the Baptist Church

Earliest records show a church here in 1052, and the tower is of typical Saxon design. The architecture of the church shows there have been many changes to the building throughout its long history. The font, although set on a modern base, dates back to Norman times. The oak reredos behind the altar was made by the famous Robert (Mouseman) Thompson (also known as Mousey Thompson) of Kilburn. His signature mouse can be seen on the right hand upright. The reredos was placed in the church as a memorial in the early 1920s. Under a capping stone set in the floor near the tower entrance, lies what is believed to be a stone of

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origin. For some years the church housed a pair of

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grand pianos belonging to the Goldstone and Clemmow piano duo, and was used for many of their recordings.

Possible Thomas Becket connection

In 1697, Abraham de la Pryme reported the existence of a stone in the ruined chancel of the church, bearing the inscribed names of "Richardus Bruto Necnon Menonius Hugo, Willelmus Trajo templum hoc lapidus altum, Condebant patria gloria dignia Deo". The inscription is translated as "Richard Brito as well as Hugh Morville and William Tracy, built with stones this lofty temple, a worthy glory to God", suggesting that three of the four knights who murdered Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, (namely Sir

Hugh de Morville, Lord of Westmorland Sir Hugh de Morville (died c. 1173) was an Anglo-Norman knight who served King Henry II of England in the late 12th century. He is chiefly famous as one of the assassins of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. He held the title Lord o ...

, Sir William de Tracy and Sir

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), took refuge in Alkborough and helped with restoration of the church. If any such stone ever existed, it cannot now be found.

Alkborough tower mill

The

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at Alkborough was built circa 1860 of red brick and tar, originally for the milling of cereals. It replaced a post mill which was recorded as still standing in 1853. It remained in wind operation until 1916 (but continued with engine operation for a short while thereafter), and from 2009 became part of a private dwelling. The mill retains two millstones in situ on the first floor. The floors contain re-used timber from the post mill, and two posts are made from a common sail whip. The tower mill is included in the

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(Number: SE 883,215, Monument Number: 497747). It is located just off West Halton Lane at .

Walcot Hall

Walcot Hall is a Grade II listed Georgian country house which stands in 22 acres of parkland in the hamlet of Walcot some 1 mile (2 km) south of the village of Alkborough. It was built in the mid to late 18th century for Thomas Goulton, modified in the early 1800s and partly demolished in 1964. Several families have occupied the building, including the Marriotts, Stricklands, Constables and Legards. It was bought by the current owners in 2004. It is currently used to cater for weddings and corporate events. It is located at .

Kell Well

Kell Well is a spring that discharges from a point just below the top of The Cliff escarpment, west of Walcot. However, due to Danish influence the name is not uncommon for springs in eastern England, ''keld'' being a Danish word for ''spring pool''. The waters of the spring were once believed to have had petrifying properties, but if this were ever the case those properties are now lost. However, the spring is chalybeate. Kell Well was first recorded by Abraham de la Pryme following his visit in 1697. He wrote "a great many pretty stones, being a kind of astroites or starr stones... The country people call them kestles and postles." The stones to which De la Pryme referred were the remnants of fossil

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. These were once common at Kell Well, though there have been no recorded finds for many years. Kell Well is accessible to the public via a spur path from the nearby bridleway. It is located at .

Low Wells

Low Wells is a spring that discharges from a point just the south side of Prospect Lane, north of (and several yards below) St John the Baptist Church. There is no evidence suggesting how the spring became known as "Low Wells", though its position below the level of the main part of the village would seem to suggest an obvious answer. The well takes the form of three low brick arches behind a long rectangular trough, into which the water flows. This well-structure is thought to have been constructed . As this arrangement was probably to facilitate the watering of livestock, a pump was installed nearby to tap the springs first and provide clean drinking water for villagers, though this has now gone. The structure was restored in 1986. Low Wells is accessible to the public from Prospect Lane, and is located at coordinates .

Apex Light

By a quirk of the Alkborough & Walcot parish boundary, the Trent Falls light known as Apex Light lies within the parish. This is despite its being 'attached' to the opposite bank of the

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, and inaccessible from Alkborough.
It is located at

Image gallery

File:Tower House - geograph.org.uk - 248450.jpg, The three-storey 'Tower House' on Back Street File:A wet square - geograph.org.uk - 10837.jpg, Trent Falls (the Confluence of Rivers Trent, Ouse and

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) File:Walcot Hall - geograph.org.uk - 11707.jpg, Walcot Hall File:Alkborough Wesleyan Chapel - geograph.org.uk - 296411.jpg, Alkborough Wesleyan Chapel

References

External links

Pastscape – English Heritage Archive websiteAlkborough & Walcot parish website
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Alkborough shown on 1:50 000 OS Map (streetmap.co.uk)
* {{Authority control Villages in the Borough of North Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire Borough of North Lincolnshire