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Yelvertoft, Northamptonshire

Historical Description

Yelvertoft, a parish, with a large village, in Northamptonshire, on the Grand Union Canal, with a station, 2½ miles N from the village, on the Rugby and Market Harborough section of the L. & N.W.R., and 7 E of Rugby. It has a post office under Rugby; money order office, Crick; telegraph office, West Haddon. Acreage, 2321; population of the civil parish, 392; of the ecclesiastical, 459. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The land is chiefly pasture. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £310 with residence. The church is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, one N and two S aisles, S porch, and a tower. It has a fine ancient alabaster tomb of 1445. There is a Congregational chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorthamptonshire 
Ecclesiastical parishYelvertoft All Saints 
HundredGuilsborough 
Poor Law unionRugby 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Yelvertoft from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online:

DistrictDaventry
CountyNorthamptonshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtNN6
Post TownNorthampton

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