Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ellridgehill or Elsrickle

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.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Walston ScoP       Lanarkshire ScoCnty
Place names: ELLRIDGEHILL     |     ELLRIDGEHILL OR ELSRICKLE     |     ELSRICKLE
Place: Elsrickle

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