Yeaveley

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Yeaveley
Derbyshire

Holy Trinity Church, Yeaveley
Location
Grid reference: SK186403
Location: 52°57’36"N, 1°43’26"W
Data
Post town: Ashbourne
Postcode: DE6
Dialling code: 01335
Local Government
Council: Derbyshire Dales
Parliamentary
constituency:
Derbyshire Dales

Yeaveley is a small village near Rodsley and four miles south of Ashbourne in the west of Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish (including Rodsley) as at the 2011 census was 396.

The village has no school but does have a public house and a church, Holy Trinity Church.

During the reign of King Richard I, Ralph Foun gave a hermitage at Yeaveley with lands, waters, woods, mills, and other appurtenances to the Knights Hospitallers.[1]

Outside links

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References

  1. A History of the County of Derby - Volume 2 pp 75-77: House of Knights Hospitallers: The preceptory of Yeaveley and Barrow (Victoria County History)