NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Alkborough

Alkborough is an English village of about 450 people in North Lincolnshire, located in an isolated but attractive position near the northern end of the Cliff range of hills overlooking the point called Trent Falls, where the Rivers Trent and Ouse join to form the River Humber. The parish, which covers about 2,875 acres (12 km�), includes the hamlet of Walcot (a 'shrunken village'), which lies about a mile (1.6 km) south of the village of Alkborough. There is a turf maze in the village, called Julian's Bower.

Ordnance Survey grid reference SE 883 216.

Categories: Villages in Lincolnshire

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Alkborough at AllExperts (531 words)
	Alkborough is an English village of about 450 people in North Lincolnshire, located in an isolated but attractive position near the northern end of the Cliff range of hills overlooking the point called Trent Falls, where the Rivers Trent and Ouse join to form the River Humber.
	Alkborough Flats is an area of low-lying arable farmland of nearly 4 kmÂ² situated at the "Confluence of the Rivers" where the Rivers Trent and Ouse join to form the Humber estuary.
	Alkborough Flats is the first coastal realignment site to be developed as part of the Humber Shoreline Management Plan.

Thomas Spilman (3712 words)
	Phillipia Spilman was born in 1665 in Alkborough.
	Ellin Spilman was born in 1772 in Alkborough.
	Elleanor Spilman was born in 1799 in Alkborough.

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