In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ellenbrook like this:

ELLENBROOK, a chapelry, with a r. station, in Eccles parish, Lancashire; on the Manchester and Wigan railway, 2½ miles E of Tyldesley. The living is a p. curacy. Value, £137. Patron, the Earl of Ellesmere. The church is in the Norman style.

Ellenbrook through time

Ellenbrook is now part of SALFORD District. Click here for graphs and data of how SALFORD has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ellenbrook itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ellenbrook, in Salford and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25078

Date accessed: 09th April 2026


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