A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
YAXLEY, a village and a parish in the district of Peterborough and county of Huntingdon. The village stands 3 miles NNW of Holme r. station, and 4¾ S by W of Peterborough; was known at Domesday as Yakesley; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Peterborough, and a fair on Holy Thursday. The parish comprises 4,290 acres. Real property, £8,682. Pop., 1,411. Houses, 287. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value £177.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early and later English, and has a handsome spire. There are three dissenting chapels, and an endowed school with £70 a year. Dr. O. Gregory was a native.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Yaxley CP/AP Huntingdonshire AncC |
| Place names: | YAKESLEY | YAXLEY |
| Place: | Yaxley |
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