Ellerburn is a village in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, situated near Thornton-le-Dale, about east of

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. It is located in the North York Moors National Park.

History

Ellerburn St Hilda March 2009 (Nigel Coates)

The tiny hamlet of Ellerburn was formerly an industrial area with paper mills and quarries. There is an ancient church, a

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

building, which can boast some unconventional vicars. One in the 18th century stole stones to restore the church; another in the following century seems to have regularly fallen into the adjacent Thornton Beck and held services dripping wet.

The Church of St Hilda

The original church of

St Hilda Hilda (or Hild) of Whitby (c. 614 – 680) was a Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby in 664. An important figure in the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon Engla ...

building dates to the early Norman period, and according to some sources, to the Saxon era, as early as 850 or 1050. A number of carved stones from the 9th to 10th centuries incorporated in the walls. Four of the stones can be found to the left of the porch. A beautifully carved Anglo-Scandinavian style cross can be found on the south wall of the nave. The font is 11th century on a modern base. The church was restored and modified in 1904–1905 and in 1911. During restoration an early building was found as well as an ancient altar stone which was reinstalled. This church is similar in style and age to

St Gregory's Minster St Gregory's Minster is an Anglo-Saxon church with a rare sundial, in Kirkdale near Kirkbymoorside, Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The minster was built on the site of an earlier church, and is d ...

in Kirkdale. File:SerpentCross.jpg, Viking carved stone cross File:Column fragment with ropework decoration.jpg, 9th or 10th century column with ropework decoration File:Interior decoration with carved ammonites.jpg, Arch support carved with ammonites

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Villages in North Yorkshire {{ryedale-geo-stub