ELLAND  , an

urban district in the Elland parliamentary division of Yorkshire, England, on the Calder, 22 m . S. of Halifax by the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway . Pop . (1901) 10,412 . The church of St Mary is Decorated and Perpendicular . Cotton-mills, woollen-factories, ironworks, flagstone quarries at Elland Edge, and fire-clay works employ the industrial population . Elland Hall, though almost rebuilt, retains the recollection of a remarkable family feud between the Ellands and the Beaumonts of Crosland Hall, the site of which may be traced in the vicinity . A nephew of Sir John Elland, in 1342, met death at the hands of a relative of the Beaumonts upon whom Sir John took vengeance, as also upon the heads of the allied houses of Lock-wood and Quarmby . The children of these families were educated in the hope of avenging their parents, and after many years succeeded in doing so, cutting off Sir John Elland and his heir .