Ellingham is most famous for the story of Alice Lisle, who was executed by the infamous Judge Jeffreys in 1685, on the charge of harbouring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion.

The village and surrounding countryside are a large tourist attraction in the summer months.

[2] These lakes now separate Ellingham church from the rest of the former parish around Rockford and Moyles Court.

[4] In 1658 a final settlement by which Ellingham passed to the Lisles was ratified by William Okeden.

[5] Charged with harbouring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion at the Battle of Sedgemoor, she was executed in 1685.

[4] His nephew Edward Hayles Taylor, who took the name of Lisle in 1822, sold the manor soon afterwards to the Earl of Normanton, whose family seat was (and still is) at nearby Somerley.

Rockford is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 when it was held by Hugh of St Quentin, but by the 13th century it had passed to the Moels family and Rockford stayed in that family until the death of John de Moels in 1337.

[4] Alice Lisle continued to live at Moyles Court after her husband's assassination until her own notorious trial and execution in 1685.