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Elloughton, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1750.

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ELLOUGHTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"ELLOUGHTON, a parish in the E.R. of Yorkshire."


"BROUGH, in the parish of Elloughton, in the E.R. of Yorkshire, in Holderness, a small village near the old Roman city Cataractum, with a bridge called Cattarack-Bridge; at the S. end of which is a little stone chapel, where, according to tradition, mass was formerly said everyday at eleven o'clock for the benefit of travellers. The manor-house is called Burghall, and the lands bel. to it Thornburrough. Sir John Lawson, Bt. has a seat here."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]