ELLERTON-PRIORY, a parish in the Holme-
Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East
riding of the county of YORK, 9 miles (N.N.W.) from
Howden, containing 318 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of the East riding,
and diocese of York, endowed with £210 private benefaction,
and £ 400 royal bounty. John Bethell, Esq.
was patron in 1814. The church is dedicated to St.
Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
There are three almshouses for six poor persons.
William Fitz-Piers, before 1212, founded here a priory
of the Sempringham order, who were obliged to maintain
thirteen poor people: at the dissolution the establishment
consisted of a prior and about nine religious,
whose revenue was valued at £78. 0. 10.