Elloes was a

local justice area Local justice areas are units in England and Wales established by the Courts Act 2003, replacing and directly based on the previous petty sessional divisions. They have been in existence since 2005. Whilst previously, local justice areas were used ...

(LJA) and former

petty sessional division A petty sessional division was, in England and Wales, the area that a magistrates' court had jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' and 'speech' or 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

. It was formed in 1990 by a merger of the former East Elloe and West Elloe petty sessional divisions, which were named for the historic Elloe

wapentake A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and in Cumberland County in the British Colony of ...

. It was abolished in 2010 and merged into the new South Lincolnshire LJA. South Lincolnshire was itself abolished in 2013 and merged into the new Lincolnshire LJA.

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