Yaxley, Huntingdonshire

Description
Yaxley, a village and a parish in Huntingdonshire. The village stands 4 1/2 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.