Alwalton

Alwalton
St Andrew's Church, Alwalton
Alwalton Location within Cambridgeshire
Population	317 (2011)
OS grid reference	TL141960
District	Huntingdonshire
Shire county	Cambridgeshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Peterborough
Postcode district	PE7
Police	Cambridgeshire
Fire	Cambridgeshire
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	North West Cambridgeshire
List of places UK England Cambridgeshire 52°32′58″N 0°19′46″W / 52.54944°N 0.32944°W / 52.54944; -0.32944

Alwalton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.^[1] Alwalton lies approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of Peterborough city centre. Alwalton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. The village runs onto the Peterborough suburb of Orton Northgate, with which the administrative boundary runs along the A605 road, the northern side of the road being in Alwalton and the southern side in Orton Northgate. Alwalton overlooks the southern bank of the River Nene and is close to the line of Ermine Street or the A1 road, west of which lies the neighbouring village of Chesterton.