Alkington is a civil parish in the district of Stroud, Gloucestershire.

[1] There is no Alkington village, the parish consists of various hamlets, including Woodford, Newport and Lower Wick.

Alkington was in Thornbury Rural District until the RDC was abolished in 1974.

These were the parishes of Hinton, Hamfallow, Ham and Stone, Alkington, and Berkeley itself.

With the demise of Avon, in 1996, Alkington remained with the main county of Gloucestershire.