Yelling, Huntingdonshire
Historical Description
Yelling, a parish, with a village, in Huntingdonshire, 4 miles SE from Offord station on the G.N.R., and 7½ S from Huntingdon, with a post and money order office under Huntingdon; telegraph office, Offord D'Arcy. Acreage, 1848; population, 316. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. There is a chalybeate spring. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £180 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a building of stone and cobble in the Norman style. There is a Baptist chapel. H. Venn was rector.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Huntingdonshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Yelling Holy Cross | |
Hundred | Toseland | |
Poor Law union | Caxton and Arrington |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Yelling from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Yelling (Holy Cross))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Huntindonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Yelling are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)