Aikton is a small village in the north of the English county of Cumbria.

Aikton is located 5+1⁄2 miles (8.9 km) south of the Scottish border, in the centre of the Channel of the River Eden.

Pevsner says that it has a "solid C12 w[est] front" and gives details of Norman and Early English Period work on the church.

"[3][4] The village pub, the 'Aikton Inn', was constructed in the 18th century and is also used as a Bed and Breakfast facility.

Until the 16th century the area was terrorised by border raiders,[5] and the land formed one (demesne) of the two manors owned by the Burgh Barony, down to the death of Hugh de Morville in 1202.