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Alkington is a civil parish in the district of Stroud, Gloucestershire.
It had a population of 638 in the 2001 census. There is no Alkington village,
the parish consists of various hamlets, including Woodford, Newport and
Lower Wick.
The parish adjoins the Stroud parishes of Ham and Stone to the west; Hamfallow
to the north; Stinchcombe to the north-east; North Nibley to the east.
The South Gloucestershire parishes of Charfield and Tortworth lie to the
south and south-west respectively.Alkington was in Thornbury Rural District
until the RDC was abolished in 1974. The greater part was transferred
into the new county of Avon, as part of the new district of Northavon
but a group of parishes in the north of the district, around Berkeley,
wished not to transfer into the new county, but chose instead to remain
with Gloucestershire, under the new Stroud District Council.
