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"ELLOUGHTON, a parish in the E.R. of Yorkshire."
"BROUGH, in the parish of Elloughton, in the E.R. of Yorkshire, in Holderness, a small village near the old Roman city Cataractum, with a bridge called Cattarack-Bridge; at the S. end of which is a little stone chapel, where, according to tradition, mass was formerly said everyday at eleven o'clock for the benefit of travellers. The manor-house is called Burghall, and the lands bel. to it Thornburrough. Sir John Lawson, Bt. has a seat here."
[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]