Yaxley, Huntingdonshire
Historical Description
Yaxley, a village and a parish in Huntingdonshire. The village stands 4½ miles S by W of Peterborough, and has a station on the G.N.R. It was known at Domesday as Yakesley, was once a market-town, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Peterborough, and a fair on Holy Thursday. The parish comprises 4298 acres; population, 1304. The manor belongs to the Earl of Carysfort. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £203 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a fine spacious cruciform building of rubble, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, S porch, and an embattled western tower, partly in the Decorated, but chiefly in the Late Perpendicular style. There are also Baptist, Congregational, Free Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.
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 | Yaxley St. Peter | |
Hundred | Norman-Cross | |
Poor Law union | Peterborough |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Yaxley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Yaxley (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Huntindonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Yaxley 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)