Ellerbeck

For the locality in Australia, see Ellerbeck, Queensland.

Ellerbeck
Looking west through Ellerbeck
Ellerbeck is located in North Yorkshire
Ellerbeck
Ellerbeck
Location within North Yorkshire
Population50 (2015) NYCC[1]
OS grid referenceSE 432 967
Civil parish
  • Ellerbeck
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNORTHALLERTON
Postcode districtDL6
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
54°21′51″N 1°20′11″W / 54.36405°N 1.33631°W / 54.36405; -1.33631

Ellerbeck is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The population of the parish was estimated at 50 in 2011 and 2011.[1] As the population taken at the 2011 Census remained less than 100, the details are maintained in the civil parish of Winton, Stank and Hallikeld.[2]

Ellerbeck lies on the A684 road between Northallerton and the A19 near Osmotherley. Ellerbeck also lies on the route of one of the variations of the Coast to coast walk.

Cod Beck flows through Ellerbeck on its way down into the Vale of Mowbray from the North York Moors.

The village of Elrebec is mentioned in the Domesday Book as having two ploughlands and being the property of Ligulf in 1066, but King William in 1086.[3] The name was recorded as either Elrebec or Alrebec and means Alder Brook.[4][5]

There was a violent gas explosion in Ellerbeck in the late 1990s which destroyed a house in the village but did not cause any deaths.[6]

  1. ^ a b "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  2. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Winton, Stank and Hallikeld Parish (E04007299)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Ellerbeck | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  4. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 163. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  5. ^ Smith, A. H. (1979) [1928]. The Place Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire. English Place Name Society. p. 212. OCLC 19714705.
  6. ^ "Four Escape fire after blast wrecks luxury home". Darlington & Stockton Times. 16 November 1996. p. 10. ISSN 2516-5348.