{{Short description|Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}} {{for|the locality in Australia|Ellerbeck, Queensland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Use British English|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | coordinates = {{coord|54.36405|-1.33631|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Ellerbeck | static_image = Ellerbeck.jpg | static_image_width = 240px | static_image_caption = Looking west through Ellerbeck | population = 50 | population_ref = (2015) NYCC<ref name="NYCC">{{cite web |title=2015 Population Estimates Parishes |url=https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/About%20the%20council/North%20Yorkshire%20statistics/Parish_mid-year_population_estimates_2015.pdf |website=northyorks.gov.uk |access-date= 29 June 2023|page=16 |date=December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604015709/https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/About%20the%20council/North%20Yorkshire%20statistics/Parish_mid-year_population_estimates_2015.pdf|archive-date=4 June 2022|url-status=dead}}</ref> | civil_parish = Ellerbeck | unitary_england = North Yorkshire | lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire | region = Yorkshire and the Humber | constituency_westminster = | post_town = NORTHALLERTON | postcode_district = DL6 | postcode_area = DL | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = SE 432 967 }}
'''Ellerbeck''' is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The population of the parish was estimated at 50 in 2011 and 2011.<ref name="NYCC"/> As the population taken at the 2011 Census remained less than 100, the details are maintained in the civil parish of Winton, Stank and Hallikeld.<ref>{{NOMIS2011|id=E04007299|title=Winton, Stank and Hallikeld Parish|accessdate=29 June 2023}}</ref>
Ellerbeck lies on the A684 road between Northallerton and the A19 near Osmotherley. Ellerbeck also lies on the route of one of the variations of the Coast to coast walk. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Hambleton District, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
Cod Beck flows through Ellerbeck on its way down into the Vale of Mowbray from the North York Moors.
The village of Elrebec is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' as having two ploughlands and being the property of Ligulf in 1066, but King William in 1086.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ellerbeck {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SE4396/ellerbeck/ |website=opendomesday.org |access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref> The name was recorded as either ''Elrebec'' or ''Alrebec'' and means Alder Brook.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |oclc=1228215388 |page=163 |edition=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=A. H. |title=The Place Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire |date=1979|orig-date=1928|oclc= 19714705|publisher=English Place Name Society|page=212}}</ref>
There was a violent gas explosion in Ellerbeck in the late 1990s which destroyed a house in the village but did not cause any deaths.<ref>{{cite news |title=Four Escape fire after blast wrecks luxury home |work=Darlington & Stockton Times |date=16 November 1996 |page=10|issn=2516-5348}}</ref>
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Category:Villages in North Yorkshire Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire
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