Yeaveley

Yeaveley

Yeaveley is a small village near Rodsley and south of Ashbourne in Derbyshire.

The village has no school but does have a public house and the Holy Trinity Church. During the reign of Richard I, Ralph Foun gave a hermitage at Yeaveley with lands, waters, woods, mills, and other appurtenances to the Knights Hospitallers. ['House of Knights Hospitallers: The preceptory of Yeaveley and Barrow', A History of the County of Derby: Volume 2 (1907), pp. 75-77. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40128 url] . Date accessed: 21 April 2008.]

Notable residents

Henry Yevele, medieval architect of Westminster Abbey nave was born here c. 1320 [ [http://www.derbyshireuk.net/yeaveley.html Derbyshireuk] ]

Fidel Castro stayed in the village from 1929 to 1931.

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