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Ellel, Lancashire

Historical Description

Ellel, a township and a chapelry in Lancashire. The township is in Cockerham parish, and lies adjacent to the Lancaster Canal, and the L. & N.W.R. near Galgate station, 4 miles S of Lancaster. The township includes the village of Galgate, which has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lancaster; and also a silk spinning mill, and a Wesleyan chapel. Area of township, 5814 acres, of which 32 are water; population, 1799; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1318. Ellel Grange, the seat of the Preston family, and Ellel Hall, the seat of the Ford family, are chief residences. The chapelry is less extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1858. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £269 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Cocker-ham. The church is a plain building erected in 1800. At Ellel Grange is a small but beautiful church in the French Gothic style. The living is a perpetual curacy; gross value, £150 with residence.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishCockerham 
HundredLonsdale south of the Sands 
Poor Law unionLancaster 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ellel from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Ellel are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictLancaster
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtLA2
Post TownLancaster

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