Elswick is a rural village and civil parish in the English county of Lancashire, situated on the coastal plain called the Fylde. At the 2001 United Kingdom census, the parish had a population of 1,057, increasing to 1,079 at the 2011 Census. At the time of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, Elswick was a small agricultural community in the hundred of Amounderness. The village was originally part of the ecclesiastical parish of St Michael's on Wyre. A Nonconformist chapel was built in Elswick before 1650.