Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ELLOUGHTON

ELLOUGHTON, a township in Beverley district, and a parish partly also in Sculcoates district, E. R. Yorkshire. The township is conjoined with Brough, under the name of Elloughton-cum-Brough; and comprises Brough, with railway station and head post office, on the Selby and Hull railway, and on the Humber, 2¾ miles SSE of South Cave, and Elloughton, 1½ mile NE of Brough. Acres, 1, 998; of which 578 are water. Real property, £3, 832. Pop., 641. Houses, 136. The parish contains also the township of Wauldby. Acres, 2, 988. Real property, £5, 249. Pop., 688. Houses, 143. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is good; and there are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, and charities £14.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Sculcoates RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Elloughton

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