Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ELLERKER

ELLERKER, a township-chapelry in Brantingham parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 1 mile S of South Cave, and 2¼ NNW of Brough r. station. Post town, South Cave, under Brough. Real property, £3, 446. Pop., 341. Houses, 69. The property is divided among a few. Part of the surface is Ellerker Sand. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Brantingham, in the diocese of York. The church is tolerable; and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Brantingham CP/AP       Ellerker CP/Tn       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Ellerker

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