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.
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: 01st October 2024
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