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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  WEST ELLA	Manor	KIRK ELLA CP/AP (Parish-level Unit)
  WEST ELLA	Manor	RUDSTON CP/AP (Parish-level Unit)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WEST ELLA":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHICHESTER	Sussex	Ella's son Cissa, king of the South Saxons; and named after him Cissaceaster, signifying "Cissa's camp, " and modernized into Chichester. The citizens repelled the Danes in 876 and 900. The city, with eighty-three manors, was given by William the Conqueror to Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Alençon. A castle was built, in the NE quarter, by the Earl; but is now thoroughly extinct. The city acquired such consequence from the Earl's sway, that it immediately became the seat of a diocese in lieu of Selsey. Its walls were repeatedly restored and strengthened; but they	Imperial
  ELLA (Kirk)	Yorkshire	ELLA (Kirk) , a township and a parish in Sculcoates district, E. R. Yorkshire. The township lies 3 miles N of Hessle r. station, and 5 WNW of Hull; and has a post office under Hull. Acres, 980. Real property, £3, 128. Pop., 250. Houses, 57. The parish includes also the townships of West	Imperial
  Ella, West	Yorkshire	Ella, West , township, Kirk Ella and North Ferriby pars., East-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles NW. of Hull, 534 ac., pop. 123.	Bartholomew
  ELLA (West)	Yorkshire	ELLA (West) , a township in Kirk-Ella parish, E. R. Yorkshire. Acres, 570. Real property, £1, 116. Pop., 154. Houses	Imperial
  Stirling	Stirlingshire	west can ever forget the plain of Stirling, the endless charm of this wonderful scene, the wealth, the splendour, the variety, the majesty of all which here lies between earth and heaven.' The foreground is everywhere a rich alluvial plain, fertile, highly cultivated, and well wooded, with here and there an abrupt protruded hillock, starting abruptly from the flat, and relieving it from tameness. To the N and NE are the woods about Bridge of Allan and Dunblane, and the hillscreened vale of Allan Water, then the picturesque wood-crowned cliffs of Abbey Craig, and the soft pastoral slopes	Groome
  SUSSEX	Sussex	West Rother. Lower greensand rocks occupy about three-fourths of the entire area, inward from the N and the E boundaries; upper greensand rocks, with gault, form a narrow belt along the S side of the lower greensand; chalk rocks form a much broader belt thence to the sea and to the vicinity of Chichester and Emsworth; and lower eocene rocks form a tract in the SW, around Chichester and Emsworth, and thence to the sea. Iron-ore abounds in the Forest Ridge, and once was extensively worked. Building chalk, manurial chalk, cement chalk, marl, brick-clay fullers, earth	Imperial

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