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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northamptonshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Yelvertoft All Saints | |
Hundred | Guilsborough | |
Poor Law union | Rugby |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Yelvertoft (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Yelvertoft 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)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online: