Ellerby, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Ellerby, a village and a township in Swine parish, in the E.R. Yorkshire, with a station on the N.E.R., 7 miles NE by N of Hull. Post town, Hull; money order office, North Skirlaugh; telegraph office, Burton Constable (R.S.) It includes the hamlets of Dowthorpe, Longthorpe, Oubrough, and Woodall. Acreage, 2248; population, 331. There is aWesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Civil parish | Swine |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Ellerby 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 Ellerby 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: