Description
Yeaveley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Shirley parish, Derbyshire. The township lies 4 miles S by E of Ashborne station on the North Stafford railway. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Ashborne. Acreage, 1378; population, 172. The ecclesiastical parish includes Stydd liberty. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £79 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Shirley. The church was built in 1840, is in the Early English style, and consists of nave and tower. There is a Congregational chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
