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Ellerton Abbey

Ellerton Abbey

Civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

This article is about the civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. For the building in the parish, see Ellerton Abbey (building).

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.[1] 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,[2] 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.

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The parish includes Ellerton Abbey House and the adjacent ruins of Ellerton Priory.

Etymology

The place-name Ellerton derives from the Old English words elri "alder" and tun "farm or enclosure".[3] The place was mentioned in the Domesday Book, as Elreton, when it was held by Count Alan of Brittany.[4]

History

Ellerton appears to have been a village in the Middle Ages.[5] It was historically a township in the parish of Downholme in the wapentake of Hang West in the North Riding of Yorkshire. At least some of the land was held by Ellerton Priory, although the priory was never well endowed. After the dissolution, the manor passed to the Brackenbury family, who sold it in 1654 to James Drax, whose descendants hold it today.[4] In 1801 the census recorded 116 inhabitants in the township.[2] In 1830 the Drax family built Ellerton Abbey house, now a Grade II listed building.[6]

Ellerton Abbey became a separate civil parish in 1866.[7] In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire.

References

  1. [1]
    "Population Estimates". North Yorkshire County Council. 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2020. At the 2011 Census the population was not counted separately.
  2. [2]
    "Beresford's Lost Villages. Ellerton". University of Hull. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  3. [3]
    Smith, A. H. (1979) [First published 1928]. The Place-names of the North Riding of Yorkshire (PDF). English Place Name Society. p. 270.
  4. [4]
    Page, William, ed. (1914). "Parishes: Downholme". Victoria County History. A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  5. [5]
    Watson, Emma (2014). Ellerton Priory; a study of a monastic landscape (1 ed.). Swaledale and Arkengarthdale Archaeology Group. pp. 6–7. ISBN 978-1-291-77259-3.
  6. [6]
    Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1179295)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  7. [7]
    Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Ellerton Abbey CP/Tn. Retrieved 28 April 2020.

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