Ellerker, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Ellerker, a village and a township-chapelry in Brantingham parish, in the E.R. Yorkshire, 2 miles S of South Cave station on the Hull and Barnsley railway. Post town, money order, and telegraph office, South Cave (R.S.O.) Acreage, 2106; population, 299. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Brantingham, in the diocese of York; joint gross value, £375 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church (St Anne's) was rebuilt in 1842. There is a Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
| Civil parish | Brantingham | |
| Poor Law union | Beverley | |
| Riding | East | |
| Wapentake | Howdenshire |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Ellerker from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the East Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Ellerker 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 East Riding newspapers online: