Places
- Ellesmere, Shropshire, a market town in Shropshire, England
- Ellesmere Castle
- Ellesmere Rural, a civil parish to the west
- Ellesmere Park, area of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England
- Ellesmere Port, an industrial town in Cheshire, England
- Ellesmere Port and Neston, a former district and borough in Cheshire, England
- Ellesmere Canal, a canal in the United Kingdom, now known as the Llangollen Canal
- Ellesmere Island, an Arctic island of Canada and named for Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere
- Lake Ellesmere, a lake in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand
- Ellesmere (New Zealand electorate), an historic New Zealand electorate
- Ellesmere (TTC), a station on the Scarborough RT of the Toronto subway
- Ellesmere Road, an arterial road in Toronto, Canada and named after Ellesmere, Shropshire
- the former name of Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia
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