High Ellington
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK place High Ellington is a village in lower Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England, about Template:Convert north-west of Masham. The smaller village of Low Ellington is Template:Convert to the east. High Ellington is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Ellington High and Low, which also includes Low Ellington and the scattered settlement of Sutton (which includes High Sutton, Low Sutton, Sutton Penn and Sutton Grange[1]). The population of the parish was estimated at 60 in 2013.[2]
High Ellington was historically, with Low Ellington, a township in the ancient parish of Masham in the North Riding of Yorkshire.[3] At the time of the Domesday Book it was in the possession of Count Alan of Brittany.[4] It became a civil parish in 1866, then known as Ellingtons. In 1886 Sutton was transferred to the parish from Healey with Sutton.[5] From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
The parish now shares a grouped parish council, known as Masham Parish Council, with Masham, Burton on Yore and Swinton with Warthermarske.[6]
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- ↑ Not to be confused with the settlement and former civil parish of Sutton Grange near Ripon
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". In the 2011 Census the population of the parish was included with the parish of Fearby, and not separately counted.
- ↑ GENUKI: Places in the Parish of Masham in 1822
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- ↑ Vision of Britain website
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