In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Elsrickle like this:

Ellridgehill or Elsrickle, a village near the southern horder of Walston parish, E Lanarkshire, 4¼ miles NNE of Biggar. It is a pleasant place, in a picturesque situation, and decidedly superior to most small- Scottish villages. It has a Free church and a school. Some stone coffins, a number of years ago, were exhumed at the E end of the village.

Elsrickle through time

Elsrickle is now part of SOUTH LANARKSHIRE Council. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTH LANARKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Elsrickle itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Elsrickle, in South Lanarkshire and Lanarkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22090

Date accessed: 09th April 2026


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