ELLERTON-upon-SWALE, a township in that part
of the parish of CATTERICK which is in the eastern
division of the wapentake of GILLING, North riding of
the county of YORK, 1 mile (E. by S.) from Catterick,
containing 140 inhabitants. Henry Jenkins, who lived
to the extraordinary age of one hundred and sixty-nine
years, was born here; he died on the 8th of December,
1670, at this place, and a monument, with a suitabl
epitaph, was erected to his memory in the church of
Bolton upon Swale, in 1743, where he was interred.