ELLEL, a chapelry in the parish of COCKERHAM,
hundred of LONSDALE, south of the sands, county palatine
of LANCASTER, 4 miles (S. by E.) from Lancaster,
containing 1851 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese
of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of
Cockerham. The chapel was built in 1802, at the expense
of the inhabitants. Here are two silk-mills, in
which about four hundred persons are employed. A
school with a small endowment was established in 1753.