Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire

Description
Yardley Hastings, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, on the border of Buckinghamshire, 3 1/2 miles S of Castle Ashby and Earls Barton station on the Northampton and Peterborough section of the L. & N.W.R., 4 N of Olney station on the M.R., and 8 ESE of Northampton. It has a post and money order office under Northampton; telegraph office, Castle Ashby. A fair is held on Whit-Tuesday. Acreage, 4190; population, 1070. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Marquis of Northampton. Yardley Chase consists of some very beautiful woods abounding in fine timber, one portion being stocked with deer. The living is a rectory, with manorial rights, in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Northampton. The church is an ancient edifice of stone chiefly in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, side aisles, S porch, and an embattled Norman tower. There is a Congregational chapel. Yare, The. See YAK. Yarington. See YARNTON. Yarkhill, a parish in Herefordshire, lying 1 1/2 mile N of Stoke Edith station on the G.W.R., and 7 miles E by N of Hereford. It has a post office under Hereford; money order office, Tarrington; telegraph office, Bartestree. Area, 2303 acres; population of civil parish, 474; of ecclesiastical, 391. The parish council has seven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £224 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church, except the tower, was rebuilt in 1862.