High Ellington is a village in lower

Wensleydale Wensleydale is the dale or upper valley of the River Ure on the east side of the Pennines, one of the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of only a few Yorkshire Dales not currently named after its principal river, but th ...

North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by National parks of the United Kingdom, national parks, including most of ...

, England, about 2.5 miles north-west of

Masham Masham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 1,205 at the 2011 census. Etymology In Wensleydale, on the western bank of the River Ure, the name derives from the An ...

. The smaller village of Low Ellington is 0.6 miles to the east. High Ellington is in

Harrogate district The Borough of Harrogate is a local government district with borough status in North Yorkshire, England. Its population at the census of 2011 was 157,869. Its council is based in the town of Harrogate, but it also includes surrounding towns and v ...

, and 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 Grange). The population of the parish was estimated at 60 in 2013. High Ellington was historically, with Low Ellington, a

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

in the

ancient parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. ...

in the

North Riding of Yorkshire The North Riding of Yorkshire is a subdivision of Yorkshire, England, alongside York, the East Riding and West Riding. The riding's highest point is at Mickle Fell with 2,585 ft (788 metres). From the Restoration it was used as ...

. At the time of the

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it was in the possession of

Count Alan of Brittany Alan Rufus, alternatively Alanus Rufus (Latin), Alan ar Rouz ( Breton), Alain le Roux ( French) or Alan the Red (c. 1040 – 1093), 1st Lord of Richmond, was a Breton nobleman, kinsman and companion of William the Conqueror (Duke William II o ...

. It became a civil parish in 1866, then known as Ellingtons. In 1886 Sutton was transferred to the parish from

Healey with Sutton Healey may refer to: People * Chadwyck-Healey baronets, an English baronetcy seated in Surrey * Healey (surname), people with the surname Healey * Healey Willan (1880-1968), Anglo-Canadian composer Places in England * Healey, Greater Mancheste ...

. The parish now shares a grouped parish council, known as Masham Parish Council, with

Burton on Yore Burton-on-Yore (historically also Burton upon Ure) is a civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, facing Masham across the River Ure (historically the River Yore). There is no village in the parish, but there are two h ...

and Swinton with Warthermarske.

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