Ellenbrook, Greater Manchester

Ellenbrook

Ellenbrook Chapel of St Mary the Virgin
Ellenbrook
 Ellenbrook shown within Greater Manchester
OS grid referenceSD726016
Metropolitan boroughSalford
Metropolitan county Greater Manchester
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town MANCHESTER
Postcode district M28, M29
Dialling code 0161
Police Greater Manchester
Fire Greater Manchester
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK ParliamentWorsley and Eccles South
List of places
UK
England
Greater Manchester

Coordinates: 53°30′40″N 2°24′43″W / 53.511°N 2.412°W / 53.511; -2.412

Ellenbrook is a suburban village in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. Historically a part of Lancashire, it is close to Worsley and Walkden, by the East Lancashire Road.

History

Etymology

The origin of the first element of the name is unknown, but the second element is certainly from Old English broc, a brook or stream. Ellenbrook is situated by the Ellen Brook which becomes the Stirrup Brook in Boothstown. The Ellen Brook is the ancient boundary between Worsley and Tyldesley.[1]

Church

Historically Ellenbrook was a chapelry in the parish of Eccles. Though its exact origins are uncertain between 1272 and 1295 the Rector of Eccles granted a licence to Richard de Worsley to have a chantry chapel provided 6d was paid annually as oblations.[1] It was an outlying chapel within the parish of Eccles, the nearest churches being at Eccles, Leigh and Deane in Bolton.

The old chapel was demolished and St. Mary's Church was rebuilt in brick in 1725 and was restored in the 1860s, funded by the 2nd Earl of Ellesmere who died before restoration was complete. The chapel's organ, a memorial to the Earl, dates from this time. The church is built in the Norman style and is a Grade II Listed building.[2][3]

Industrial Revolution

The Duke of Bridgewater owned small shallow collieries at Crookes Meadow, Grundy Common and Clays before 1770. Common, Swiney Lane and Millhough were shafts opened between 1810 and 1820.[4] In the 1830s a horse-drawn tramway connected Bridgewater Collieries' pits north of Ellenbrook at New Manchester with the Bridgewater Canal at Boothstown canal basin. In 1861 the London and North Western Railway revived powers granted to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to build a railway from Eccles to Wigan through Ellenbrook railway station which was north of the new Mosley Common Colliery which had extensive sidings at Ellenbrook.[5]

Geography

Further information: Geography of Greater Manchester

At Ellenbrook is an ancient stone that marked the boundary between the Hundreds of Salford and West Derby, the boundary of Eccles and Leigh ecclesiastical parishes, Tyldesley, Worsley and Little Hulton townships and the metropolitan districts of Wigan and Salford.[6] The former railway line is now a public bridleway to Mosley Common. It is the proposed route for a guided busway from Leigh to Manchester.[7]

Neighbouring towns, villages, and places
Tyldesley Little Hulton Walkden
Mosley Common, New Manchester Walkden
   Ellenbrook  
Astley Boothstown Worsley

Education

Ellenbrook County Primary School 130396 is located in the village.[8]

Village

The village has a church, a primary school and four pubs (the Red Lion (Now a private dwelling), the Boundary Stone and the Woodside). There is also a Co-operative Food shop, two takeaways, a beauty salon, a pharmacy and a doctors' surgery.

The Leigh-Salford-Manchester Bus Rapid Transit scheme passes through Ellenbrook.

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Farrer, William; Brownbill, J, eds. (1911), "Townships: Worsley", A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, British History Online, pp. 376–392, retrieved 2009-12-11
  2. ↑ St Mary the Virgin Ellenbrook, genuki.org.uk, retrieved 2008-12-14
  3. ↑ Ellenbrook Church, imagesofengland, retrieved 2008-12-14
  4. ↑ Atkinson 1998, p. 67
  5. ↑ Sweeney 1996, p. 140
  6. ↑ Ellenbrook, Tony Smith, retrieved 2008-12-14
  7. ↑ Leigh Salford Manchester Busway Project (PDF), brtuk.org, retrieved 22 April 2012
  8. ↑ Ellenbrook Primary School, Salford Council, retrieved 2008-12-15

Bibliography

  • Atkinson, Glen (1998), The Canal Duke's Collieries Worsley 1760-1900, Neil Richardson (Second Edition), ISBN 978-1-85216-120-0 
  • Sweeney, D.J. (1996), A Lancashire Triangle Part One, Triangle Publishing, ISBN 0-9529333-0-6 
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