Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ellerton Abbey

Ellerton Abbey, township and seat, Downholme par., North-Riding Yorkshire, on river Swale, 6½ miles SW. of Richmond, 1665 ac., pop. 44; has vestiges of a nunnery of time of Henry II.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Downholme AP/CP       Ellerton Abbey Tn/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Ellerton Abbey

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