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Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831

Alkerton, Oxfordshire

ALKERTON, a parish in the hundred of BLOXHAM, county of OXFORD, 6 miles (W.N.W.) from Banbury, containing 158 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £6. 3. 9., and in the patronage of the Rev. J. C. Townsend. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. Thomas Lydiat, the learned mathematician and chronologer, was born here, in 1572.