Ellerburn is a village in the county of

North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in Northern England.The Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority areas of City of York, York and North Yorkshire (district), North Yorkshire are in Yorkshire and t ...

, England, situated near

Thornton-le-Dale Thornton-le-Dale (also called Thornton Dale) is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, about east of Pickering, North Yorkshire, Pickering on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. The area of the village encompasses ...

, about east of Pickering. It is located in the

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. It was part of the

Ryedale Ryedale was a non-metropolitan district in North Yorkshire, England. It was in the Vale of Pickering, a low-lying flat area of land drained by the River Derwent, Yorkshire, River Derwent. The Vale's landscape is rural with scattered villages ...

district between 1974 and 2023. It is now administered by

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History

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

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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. Between 1316 and the middle of the 19th century, Ellerburn came under the parish of

Ellerburn-cum-Farmanby Ellerburn cum Farmanby (sometimes Ellerburn) is a former civil parish in what is the county of North Yorkshire, England. Parts of the parish straddled the road between Pickering, North Yorkshire, Pickering and Thornton Dale, with the church of S ...

. The area now belongs to the parish of Thornton-le-Dale.

The Church of St Hilda

The original church of

St Hilda Hilda of Whitby (or Hild; c. 614 – 680) was a saint of the early Church in Britain. She was the founder and first abbess of the monastery at Whitby which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby in 664. An important figure in the Chri ...

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 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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