Allenton or Alwinton, a village and a parish in Northumberland. The village lies on the Coquet river, at the influx of the rivulet Allen or Alwin, 10 miles NW of Rothbury railway station, and 19 WSW of Alnwick. The parish contains also the townships of Farnham, Sharperton, Peels, Clennel, Burradon, Biddlestone, Linbridge, Fairhaugh, Netherton-North-Side, and Netherton-South-Side, also five townships in the Holystone parochial chapelry. Acreage, 1181 ; population of the civil parish, 60; of the ecclesiastical, 1034. It is the largest ecclesiastical parish in England. It has a post office of the name of Alwinton, under Rothbury; the money order office is at Harbottle. Much of the surface is moor and hill, rising towards the Central Cheviots. The living is a vicarage, united to that of Holystone, in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £205 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly Norman, Early English, and Transitional, possessing a very remarkable chancel, raised by a flight of fourteen steps above the nave. It was restored in 1853.