Ellerton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Cave

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ellerton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Ellerton.

Listed Buildings Near Ellerton

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Ellerton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of All Saints - 0.93 km

Grade II

Ellerton Methodist Chapel - 0.35 km
Martin House - 0.47 km
Church of St Mary - 0.59 km
Gravestone Approximately One Metre South of South Face of Tower of All Saints Church - 0.94 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Ellerton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Ellerton:

Site of Ellerton Priory - 0.67 km
Motte and bailey castle, fishpond and moated site north and east of Aughton church - 0.87 km

Ellerton Today

Today Ellerton lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 386 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Ellerton on Wikipedia .