Elloe Wapentake
Elloe is a wapentake in the Parts of Holland, the south-east division of Lincolnshire, adjacent to the borders with Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. It had a population of 79,440 in 2011. It is bounded by Kirton Wapentake to the north; and by Ness and Aveland wapentakes in Kesteven to the west. To the south-east lies Norfolk; to the south, Cambridgeshire; and to the south-west, the Soke of Peterborough in Northamptonshire.
It comprises the following ancient parishes:
- Crowland
- Cowbit
- Deeping St Nicholas (ex. par.) (part)*
- Fleet
- Gedney
- Holbeach
- Moulton
- Pinchbeck
- Spalding
- Sutton St Mary
- Tydd St Mary
- Weston
- Whaplode
*: Parly in Ness wapentake, Kesteven.
Wapentakes of Lincolnshire |
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Holland: Elloe • Kirton • Skirbeck • Kesteven: Aswardhurn • Aveland • Beltisloe • Boothby Graffoe • Flaxwell • Grantham Soke • Langoe • Loveden • Ness • Winnibriggs and Threo • Lindsey: West Riding: Aslacoe • Corringham • Manley • Lawress • Well • North Riding: Bradley Haverstoe • Ludborough • Walshcroft • Yarborough • South Riding: Bolingbroke • Calceworth • Candleshoe • Gartree • Hill • Horncastle • Louth Eske • Wraggoe |