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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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ELLEL, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Lancaster district, Lancashire. The township is in Cockerham parish; lies adjacent to the Lancaster canal, and the Lancaster and Preston railway, near Galgate station, 4 miles S by E of Lancaster; and is cut into two divisions, north and south. Post town, Galgate, under Lancaster. Real property of the N div., £5, 243; of the S div., £3, 895, -of which £10 are in quarries. Pop. of the whole, in 1851, 1, 484; in 1861, 1, 968. Houses, 369. The increase of population arose from the erection of a silk factory, and the re-opening of a cotton factory-Ellel Grange and Ellel Hall are chief residences. The chapelry is less extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1858. Pop., 1,877. Houses, 351. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Cockerham. The church is good; and there are three dissenting chapels and two public schools.—The sub-district contains also three other townships and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 28, 888. Pop., 4, 020. Houses, 715.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Ellel CP/Tn Lancaster RegD/PLU Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Ellel |
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