AUKBOROUGH, a parish in the northern division
of the wapentake of MANLEY, parts of LINDSEY, county
of LINCOLN, 10 miles (W.) from Barton upon Humber,
containing 428 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, united to the rectory of Whitton, in
the archdeaconry of Stow, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £10, endowed with £400 private
benefaction, and £400 royal bounty. The church
is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A free school is
endowed with £16. 13.4. per annum. Dr. Stukeley
supposed Aukborough to have been the Arquis of the
geographer of Ravennas.