Yaxley

Other current and historical names

Yakesley
Iacheslei

Built-Up Area: Yaxley
Parish/Community: Yaxley
District/Borough: Huntingdonshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°31'7"N 0°15'15"W
Eastings/Northings: 518555, 292640
OS Grid: TL185926
Mapcode Local: GBR J0G.2JV
Mapcode Global: VHGKW.JYZG

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Yaxley within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Yaxley in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Yaxley.-- par. and vil., Huntingdonshire, 4½ miles S. of Peterborough, 4290 ac., pop. 1355; P.O., T.O.; was once a market town.

Yaxley in the Domesday Book

A village in Normancross hundred, in the county of Huntingdonshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Thorney St Mary
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Thorney
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Thorney
- Taxable Value: 15 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £15 in 1066; £12 in 1086
- Households: 38 villagers; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 18 men's ploughs (20 plough lands)
- Meadow: 24 acres
- Woodland: 20 acres
- Churches: 1

British Place Names

Yaxley, Cambridgeshire

Yaxley is a village in Cambridgeshire

Yaxley in historic gazetteers

Yaxley in the Domesday Book