Though its exact origins are uncertain between 1272 and 1295 the Rector of Eccles granted a licence to Richard de Worsley to have a chantry chapel provided 6d (2½p) was paid annually as oblations.

[3][4] The Duke of Bridgewater owned small shallow collieries at Crookes Meadow, Grundy Common and Clays before 1770.

[6] From the 11th century, the chapelry of Ellenbrook was part of the township of Worsley in the ancient ecclesiastical parish Eccles in the hundred of Salford, and county of Lancashire.

[2] Ellenbrook is represented in the UK parliament by Barbara Keeley, Labour MP for Worsley & Eccles South.

The area has a church, public houses (the Boundary Stone and the Woodside), a Co-operative Food shop, takeaways, a pharmacy and a doctors' surgery.