Yeaveley

Human settlement in England

Derbyshire Dales

Derbyshire

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East Midlands

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52°57′36″N 1°43′26″W / 52.960°N 1.724°W / 52.960; -1.724

Yeaveley is a small village and civil parish near Rodsley and 4 miles south of Ashbourne in Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish (including Rodsley) as at the 2011 census was 396.^[1]

The village has no school but does have a public house and the Holy Trinity Church. During the reign of Richard I, Ralph Foun gave a hermitage at Yeaveley with lands, waters, woods, mills, and other appurtenances to the Knights Hospitallers.^[2]

Notable residents

Henry Yevele, medieval architect of Westminster Abbey nave, was born here c. 1320.^[3]

John Jackson Oakden, pioneer pastoralist and explorer of South Australia, was born here 1818.

Roy Wood, musician (Wizzard), lives in nearby Cubley.^[4]

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
^ 'House of Knights Hospitallers: The preceptory of Yeaveley and Barrow', A History of the County of Derby: Volume 2 (1907), pp. 75-77. url. Date accessed: 21 April 2008.
^ "Yeaveley". DerbyshireUK. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
^ "Roy Wood - Wizard - Famous Derbyshire People". www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2020.