Ellerton-on-Swale

Ellerton-on-Swale or Ellerton (historically known as Ellerton-upon-Swale)[2] is a small village and civil parish about a mile east of Catterick in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England.[3] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population of the parish at 110.[1][4]

This article is about the village near Catterick. For Ellerton on the Swale west of Richmond, see Ellerton Abbey.

Ellerton-on-Swale
Ellerton-on-Swale
Location within North Yorkshire
Population110 [1]
OS grid referenceSE255979
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRICHMOND
Postcode districtDL10
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
Ellerton Park Leisure Lake

The village sits just south of the B6271 road between Richmond and Northallerton,[5] and has a large lake used for diving between the settlement and the River Swale to the south. Another lake to the west, Bolton-on-Swale Lake, is a former sand and gravel quarry and is now a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust sponsored nature reserve.[6]

The village has an entry in the Domesday Book which states that it belonged to Count Alan and had six villagers.[7] It is said that it is the birthplace of Henry Jenkins, who died in 1670 and is reported to have lived to an incredible age of 169 years.[8] In 1743, a memorial obelisk was placed over his grave in the nearby churchyard of Bolton-on-Swale.[9]

References
  1. "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. p. 15. Retrieved 1 July 2019. At the 2011 census, the population of the parish was included with Bolton-on-Swale) and not counted separately.
  2. Speight, Harry (1897). Romantic Richmondshire. Being a complete account of the history, antiquities and scenery of the pictuesque valleys of the Swale and Yore. London: E Stock. p. 129. OCLC 7241488.
  3. "History of Ellerton upon Swale, in Richmondshire and North Riding | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  4. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Ellerton-on-Swale Parish (E04007479)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  5. "304" (Map). Darlington & Richmond. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319245569.
  6. "Bolton-on-Swale Lake Nature Reserve". Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  7. "Ellerton [on Swale] | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  8. "Image of remarkable man who died at ripe old age". The Northern Echo. Newsquest Media Group. 2 February 2001. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  9. Lloyd, Chris (7 December 2018). "10 secrets of Richmond & Swaledale". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 1 July 2019.


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