Alkington
Alkington is a civil parish in the district of Stroud, Gloucestershire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 742 residents
- Description: civil parish in the district of Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
- Also known as: “Alkington (civil parish), Gloucestershire” and “Alkington, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dr. Jenner’s House and Church of All Saints.
Dr. Jenner’s House
Museum
Dr. Jenner's House, formerly known as the Edward Jenner Museum, in Berkeley, England, is housed in a grade II* listed early 18th century building called the Chantry, famous as the home of Edward Jenner FRS, physician, surgeon, and pioneer of smallpox vaccination, and now used as a museum. Dr. Jenner’s House is situated 2 miles northwest of Alkington.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Berkeley and Wotton-under-Edge.
Berkeley
Photo: Robin Poitou, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Berkeley is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is perhaps best known as the location of Berkeley Castle, a medieval fortress witness to many of the significant developments in British history, and as the birthplace and home of Edward Jenner, the inventor of inoculation.
Wotton-under-Edge
Photo: Lobsterthermidor, CC0.
Wotton-under-Edge is a market town of 5,600 people in Gloucestershire near the southern end of the Cotswolds. It is equidistant from Gloucester and Bristol, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Bath, a few miles from the M4 and M5.
Stinchcombe
Village
Photo: Stuart Buchan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stinchcombe is a small village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England on the B4060 road between Dursley and North Nibley. The church is called St Cyr's and its churchyard contains 40–60 gravestones.
Alkington
- Category: civil parish
- Location: Stroud District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Alkington” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “এলকিংটন”
- Bulgarian: “Алкингтон”
- Cebuano: “Alkington”
- Chinese: “艾克金頓”
- Chinese: “艾克金顿”
- French: “Alkington”
- German: “Alkington”
- Gujarati: “આલ્કિંગ્ટન”
- Irish: “Alkington”
- Japanese: “アルキントン”
- Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಕಿಂಗ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “알킹턴”
- Lithuanian: “Alkingtonas”
- Persian: “الکینگتون، گلوسیترشیر”
- Polish: “Alkington (Gloucestershire)”
- Polish: “Alkington”
- Portuguese: “Alkington”
- Russian: “Алкингтон”
- Spanish: “Alkington”
- Swedish: “Alkington”
- Tamil: “அல்கிங்க்டோன்”
- Telugu: “ఆల్ కింగ్ టన్”
- Turkish: “Alkington, Gloucestershire”
- Urdu: “الکینجٹن”
- Welsh: “Alkington, Swydd Gaerloyw”
- Welsh: “Alkington”
- “Alkington”
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Highlights include Damery Old Castle and Berkeley Castle.
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