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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Cockerham | |
Hundred | Lonsdale south of the Sands | |
Poor Law union | Lancaster |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ellel, North and South)
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:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: