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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Yeaveley, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.336 |
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| YEAVELEY is a village
and ecclesiastical parish formed out of Shirley in 1844, with the
township of Stydd, 4½ miles south from Ashborne, 11 north-west
from Derby and 3½ south-east from Clifton station on the Churnet
Valley section of the North Staffordshire railway, in the Western
division of the county, Appletree hundred, and petty sessional division,
union and county court district of Ashborne, rural deanery of Ashborne,
archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of the
Holy Trinity, erected in 1840, is a building of red brick, in the
Early English style, and consists of nave and an embattled western
tower containing one bell : it is situated towards the centre of the
village and is nearly covered with ivy : there are 154 sittings. The
register dates from the year 1841. The living is a vicarage, average
tithe rent-charge £36, gross yearly value £81, including
2½ acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar
of Shirley, and held since 1884 by the Rev. William Buck Dearden,
who is also vicar of and resides at Alkmonton. Here is a Congregational
chapel. There are a few small charities, left by Edward and Elizabeth
Pegge, amounting to 18s. 4d. distributed at Christmas in bread. John
Harrison esq. of SneIston is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
The soil and subsoil are various. The land is chiefly in pasture for
dairy produce. The acreage is 1,080 ; rateable value, £2,300;
the population in 1881 was 199. Stydd, formerly Stedde, is a township, tithe and toll free liberty, in the hundred of Appletree, 1 mile south-west. In the reign of Richard I. Ralph le Salter gave the Benedictine hermitage here, dedicated to SS. Mary and John the Baptist, to the Knights Hospitallers, whereupon it became a preceptory of that order, to which Sir William Meynell, lord of the town A.D. 1268, was a great benefactor : this preceptory was granted, 35 Hen. VIII. (1543), to Charles, Lord Mountjoy. There are still considerable remains of the chapel, consisting of a portion of the south walls and vestry, with several graceful lancet windows and clustered pillars with richly foliated capitals, these details showing beyond doubt that they belong to the original chapel erected temp. Richard I ; there is also, close to the chapel wall, a font of the same period, and on the sward a coffin slab incised with a floriated cross and a sword. The Hall adjoins these ruins, and has at one time been moated ; it was restored some years since and is now occupied as a farmhouse. The area of the township is 314 acres ; rateable value, £512; the population in 1881 was 27. Sexton, Thomas Oakden. Letters through Ashborne, the nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at 10 a.m. WALL LETTER BOX, in School wall, cleared at 3.45 p.m. week days only National School (mixed), erected about 1845, with residence for the mistress, for 50 children; average attendance, 30 ; Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Walker, mistress CARRIER.-John Thompson, to Derby every fri. & Ashborne every sat Yeaveley. Dearden Robert, The Vicarage Leadbeater Mrs Wright Mrs COMMERCIAL. Bannister Isaac, farmer Bickerton Benjamin, shopkeeper Bowler George, farmer Chadfield George, farmer Chadfield John, farmer Clewes Joseph, wheelwright & cowkpr Gadsby George, farmer Gadsby Samuel, farmer Gadsby William, farmer Gadsby William, jun. farmer Glover Frederick, boot & shoe maker Gould Thomas, farmer Harrison William, farmer, Old wash Hulland William, farmer Manifold George, farmer Millward John, farmer Pegge Arthur James, farmer Ratcliffe Ralph, farmer Robinson George, shopkeeper Robinson Jasper, farmer Thompson John, wheelwright, carpenter & carrier to Ashbome & Derby Torr Thomas, Horse Shoe inn, & farmer Wibberley John Edwd. veterinary surgn Wooliscroft Mary (Mrs.), farmer Stydd. Gadsby William, farmer Robinson Samuel, farmer, Stydd hall Turner James, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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