Yeaveley
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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]
See also
References
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- ↑ '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.
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