Description
Yaxley, a parish in Suffolk, 1 1/2 mile E of Mellis, and 2 miles W of Eye station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Eye; money order and telegraph office, Eye. Acreage, 1257; population, 335. Yaxley Hall is a Tudor mansion. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £140 with residence. The church is an interesting flint and stone edifice in the Perpendicular style, with an embattled tower, and has been well restored.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
