Elloughton, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.

ELLOUGHTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"ELLOUGHTON, a parish partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-OF-YORK, but chiefly in the Hunsley-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles S.S.E from South Cave, containing, with Brough, 383 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at £5. 0. 5., and in the patronage of the Prebendary of Wetwang in the Cathedral Church of York. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a very ancient structure. There are places of worship for Calvinists and Wesleyan Methodists. There are three almshouses for six poor persons. William Fitz-Piers, before 1212, founded here a priory of the Sempringham order, who were obliged to maintain thirteen poor people: at the dissolution the establishment consisted of a prior and about nine religious, whose revenue was valued at £78. 0. 10."

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"BROUGH FERRY, a township in the parish of ELLOUGHTON, partly in the Hunsley-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, and partly in the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, East riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles S.S.E. from South Cave. The population is returned with the parish. Here is a ferry across the Humbei: to Wintringham, in Lincolnshire."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]