Yelvertoft, Northamptonshire

Description
Yelvertoft, a parish, with a large village, in Northamptonshire, on the Grand Union Canal, with a station, 2 1/2 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.