YEAVELEY, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• 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 east windows of the church is a war memorial to men who served in World War One.
  
  
• The church seated about 154 person in 1857.
  
  
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
  

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Church Records

• 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 prior to 1857 which they shared with the Primitive Methodists.
  

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Civil Registration

• 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.
  

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Description and Travel

"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,

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Yeaveley entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Yeaveley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Military Records

• 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.

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Politics and Government

• 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).
  
  
• Today the parish is in the Derbyshire Dales district.
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1840.
  

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