Place:


Yeardsley  Cheshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Yeardsley like this:

WHALEY-CUM-YEARDSLEY, a township in Taxall parish, Cheshire; around Whaley-Bridge. Acres, 1,320. Real property, £3,952; of which £1,100 are in mines, £60 in quarries, and £20 in fisheries. Pop. in 1851, 693; in 1861, 1,052. Houses, 212. Yeardsley Hall was formerly the seat of the Jodrells, and is now a farmhouse. There is a Baptist chapel.

Yeardsley through time

Yeardsley is now part of High Peak district. Click here for graphs and data of how High Peak has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Yeardsley itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Yeardsley, in High Peak and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/335

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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