High Ellington is a village in lower Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England, about north-west of Masham. The smaller village of Low Ellington is 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 GrangeNot to be confused with the settlement and former civil parish of Sutton Grange near Ripon). The population of the parish was estimated at 60 in 2013. In the 2011 Census the population of the parish was included with the parish of Fearby, and not separately counted.
High Ellington was historically, with Low Ellington, a township in the ancient parish of Masham in the North Riding of Yorkshire.GENUKI: Places in the Parish of Masham in 1822 At the time of the Domesday Book it was in the possession of Count Alan of Brittany. It became a civil parish in 1866, then known as Ellingtons. In 1886 Sutton was transferred to the parish from Healey with Sutton.Vision of Britain website 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.
See also Listed buildings in Ellington High and Low
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