This webpage contains information about Elswick as part of the Towns section. The village has always been a farming community and is today best known for it's production of Bond's Ice Cream.
People come from miles around in the summer to buy at source.
The area is ideal for cycling. The surrounding villages of Inskip, Catforth and Weeton are all easily accessable down quiet flat country lanes. Given that an excellent pub is never far away, there are few better ways to spend a summer afternoon. The Earl of Derby's army passed by the village on route to Lancaster in 1643 and it is thought that a skirmish may have taken place here due to the discovery of weapons in the area. The United Reformed Church holds a copy of a Geneva Bible, used by all Protestants in the 17th century.