Kirk Ella, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1868.

KIRK ELLA:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1868.

"KIRK ELLA, a parish in the liberty of the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of county York, 5 miles N.W. of Hull, its post town. It includes the township of Ella West. This place derives its name from Ella, the Saxon King of Deira, of whose demesne it formed a part. At the Domesday Survey it belonged to the Mortimers, and afterwards passed to the Wake family. The village, which consists of well-built houses and modern villas, inhabited by wealthy merchants of Hull, occupies a commanding site overlooking the river Humber and the port of Hull. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of York, value £235. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is an ancient structure with a lofty square tower. It contains monuments of the Sykes family."

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"ANLABY, a township in the parishes of Kirk Ella and Hessle, in the county of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the East Riding of the county of York, 4 miles to the W. of Hull. The Hull and Selby railway passes near it. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel here. Anlaby House, the principal residence, was the seat of the Anlabys and Legards to whom the manor formerly belonged."

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"NEWINGTON, a village in the township of North Ferriby and Swanland, and parish of Kirk Ella, East Riding county York, 5 miles S.E. of South Cave. It is situated on the river Humber, opposite South Ferriby, and near the line of the Selby and Hull railway."

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"WILLERBY, a township in the parishes of Cottingham and Kirk-Ella, East Riding county York, 5 miles N.W. of Hull."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013