Ellerton-on-Swale

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Ellerton-on-Swale
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Ellerton-on-Swale
Location within North Yorkshire
Population110  [1]
OS grid reference SE255979
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town RICHMOND
Postcode district DL10
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54°22′36″N1°36′28″W / 54.3767°N 1.6079°W / 54.3767; -1.6079 Coordinates: 54°22′36″N1°36′28″W / 54.3767°N 1.6079°W / 54.3767; -1.6079
Ellerton Park Leisure Lake Ellerton Park Leisure Lake.jpg
Ellerton Park Leisure Lake

Ellerton-on-Swale or Ellerton (historically known as Ellerton-upon-Swale) [2] is a small village and civil parish about a mile east of Catterick in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. [3] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population of the parish at 110. [1] [4]

The village sits just south of the B6271 road between Richmond and Northallerton, [5] and has a large lake used for diving between the settlement and the River Swale to the south. Another lake to the west, Bolton-on-Swale Lake, is a former sand and gravel quarry and is now a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust sponsored nature reserve. [6]

The village has an entry in the Domesday Book which states that it belonged to Count Alan and had six villagers. [7] It is said that it is the birthplace of Henry Jenkins, who died in 1670 and is reported to have lived to an incredible age of 169 years. [8] In 1743, a memorial obelisk was placed over his grave in the nearby churchyard of Bolton-on-Swale. [9]

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Ellerton Abbey is a civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the River Swale in lower Swaledale, 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Richmond. The population of the parish was estimated at 20 in 2016. The parish consists of farmland, a few scattered houses and an area of moorland which is part of the army training area associated with Wathgill Camp. The parish includes the site of the deserted medieval village of Ellerton, not to be confused with the modern village of Ellerton-on-Swale 11 miles to the east, but there is no modern village in the civil parish.

References

  1. 1 2 "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2019. At the 2011 census, the population of the parish was included with Bolton-on-Swale) and not counted separately.
  2. ↑ Speight, Harry (1897). Romantic Richmondshire. Being a complete account of the history, antiquities and scenery of the pictuesque valleys of the Swale and Yore. London: E Stock. p. 129. OCLC   7241488.
  3. ↑ "History of Ellerton upon Swale, in Richmondshire and North Riding | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  4. ↑ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Ellerton-on-Swale Parish (E04007479)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "304" (Map). Darlington & Richmond. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN   9780319245569.
  6. ↑ "Bolton-on-Swale Lake Nature Reserve". Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "Ellerton [on Swale] | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Image of remarkable man who died at ripe old age". The Northern Echo . Newsquest Media Group. 2 February 2001. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  9. ↑ Lloyd, Chris (7 December 2018). "10 secrets of Richmond & Swaledale". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 1 July 2019.


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