Yeaveley

Yeaveley is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops by the Council offices on Thursday mornings.

A;ternatively, the Ashbourne Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• Just 1/2 mile south of the village on Leapley Lane is a relatively new cemetery, apparently opened around 1960.
   
• John POYSER has a photograph of Yeaveley Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2007.
   
• We have a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a pop-up window text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   

• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• There was an ancient Hermitage (or Preceptory) here run by the Knights of St. John.
   
• Yeaveley was originally a Chapelry to Shirley parish church. That chapel was reported as "decayed" in 1650.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
   
• The church was built in 1840 on the site of an older, ruinous chapel. At the same time, Yeaveley was created as a separate ecclesiastical parish.
   
• The church was consecrated on 15 April 1841.
   
• The church seated about 154 person in 1857.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
   
• Michael PATTERSON has a photograph of Holy Trinity Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2007.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1841. Entries prior to that date can be found in Shirley's parish register. Burials prior to 1841 appear to have been done at Shirley.
   
• The church is in the deanery of Ashbourne.
   
• The Independents built a chapel here in 1815 which they shared with the Primitive Methodists.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration records prior to 1860 should be found under Shirley parish.

"YEAVELEY, a chapelry [of Shirley], 4 miles S. from Ashbourn. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is a neat brick structure, with a tower and one bell. The living is a perpetual curacy; the vicar of Shirley, patron, and Rev. Henry S. Pearson, B.A., incumbent. A national school was erected in 1840; and the Independents have a chapel, in which they have service on a portion of the Sunday, and the Primitive Methodists occupy it on the other portion."

[Description from Harrison, Harrop & Co.'s Directory & Gazetteer of Derbyshire, 1860]

Hales Green is a small village 1 mile north-west of Yeaveley, Stydd, formerly STEDDE, is a former Township 1 mile south-west of the village.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Yeaveley entry under Brailsford from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Yeaveley entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Yeaveley entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• The transcription of the section for Yeaveley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Yeaveley to another place.

Eamon CURRY has a photograph of The Yeaveley Arms in the center of the village on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2010. This pub was closed and signed "For Sale" in August, 2014.

Stydd Hall is a country house near the village of Yeaveley. Stydd had formerly been an independent township but has all but disappeared. It was originally a medieval fortified preceptory of the Knights Hospitaller, founded in 1190.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK183407 (Lat/Lon: 52.963018, -1.729209), Yeaveley which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• The east window of the church is a war memorial to men who served in World War One.
   

• In the church is a tablet mounted on the north wall to commemorate Private Allen BRASSINGTON who fell one month before the Armistice of WWI.
   
• There is no entry in the Commonwealth War Grave Commission database for Allen BRASSINGTON.

• This place was an ancient township and Chapelry in Shirley parish in Derbyshire.
   
• This place appears to have become a separate Civil Parish some time in the 1860s, but the precise date awaits further research.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The parish has a joint Parish Council with Rodsley. Be aware: They cannot do family history work for you.
   
• Today the parish is in the Derbyshire Dales district.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Appletree petty session hearings.
   
• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Ashbourne Poorlaw Union.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1840.

A National School (mixed) was erected about 1845 for 50 children.