Yearsley
| Yearsley | |
| Yorkshire North Riding | |
|---|---|
 Yearsley Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE588745 |
| Location: | 54°9’48"N, 1°6’2"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | York |
| Postcode: | YO61 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Yorkshire |
Yearsley is a small village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, sitting between the market towns of Easingwold and Helmsley.. The parish population was less than 100 at the 2011 Census.
The entire parish of Yearsley is within the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It was, and remains, a predominantly agricultural village with significant forestry on the moors to the north of the village.
History
The name 'Yearsley' is recorded in the Domesday Book as 'Eureslage' and then, in the Pipe Rolls of 1176, as 'Euereslai'. The origins of the name are probably Anglo-Saxon, from ‘’Eofores leah’’, meaning Boar’s Meadow.
Following the Norman invasion, the lands of Yearsley fell into the hands of Roger de Mowbray, who, by 1160, passed the estates to another Norman nobleman, Thomas Colville (from Collville-Sur-Mer on the Normandy coast). The heirs of Thomas Colville (also all called Thomas) owned the lands of Yearsley until 1398 when the next heir, William Colville, took the step of calling himself by the name of his English, rather than erstwhile Norman lands, and became William Yearsley.[1] The manorial estates of Yearsley passed to Sir William Yearsley (who was Clerk of the Wardrobe to Henry VI) and, in 1482, to a third heir, Thomas Yearsley, who died without male heirs in 1497. Through marriage, the estates of Yearsley then passed (by Thomas Yearsley's daughter, Thomasin) to William Wildon of Fryton.[2]
About the village
The parish church is St Hilda’s.[3]
Yearsley is the site of a number of barrows and other early earthworks.[4] Yearsley was also the site of the pottery of William Wedgewood, a relation of the famous Staffordshire Wedgwood family of potters. The village was part of the Newburgh Priory estate of the Wombwell family until 1944.
The Pond Head reservoir between Yearsley and Oulston is fed from the nearby source of the River Foss.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Yearsley) |
- Vision of Britain entry on Yearsley.
- Yearsley Surname Genetic DNA Study.
- A History of the County of York: North Riding - Volume 2 pp 8-24: Parishes: Coxwold (Victoria County History)
References
- ↑ Yearsley: A Genealogical Story Part 1: The Early Years
- ↑ Yearsley: A Genealogical Story Part 1: The Early Years
- ↑ Historic Churches of Great Britain
- ↑ "Yearsley Moor Archaeological Project, 2009–2013, Over 4000 years of history" (PDF). 2013. pp. 28–30. http://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/looking-after/our-projects-and-partnerships/previous-projects/lime-and-ice/exploring-yearsley-moor/YMAP-Final-Report-2013.pdf.
- North Yorkshire Federations of Women's Institutes. The North Yorkshire Village Book. Countryside Books, Newbury, 1991. ISBN 1-85306-137-9
- Ryedale Gazette and Herald on Coxwold (and Yearsley), 07/01/2004
