Yelden

Other current and historical names

Yielding
Giveldene

Parish/Community: Melchbourne and Yielden
Unitary Authority: Bedford
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°17'21"N 0°31'4"W
Eastings/Northings: 501182, 266706
OS Grid: TL011667
Mapcode Local: GBR G05.FVP
Mapcode Global: VHFPF.ZQ0G

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

Yelden in historic gazetteers

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

Yelden (or Yielding), par., Bedfordshire, near N. border of co., 4 m. SE. of Higham Ferrers, 1912 ac., pop. 243.

Yelden in the Domesday Book

A village in Stodden hundred, in the county of Bedfordshire.

- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Burgred father of Edwin; Freemen, five
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop of Coutances
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Geoffrey of Trelly (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 10 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1066; £5 in 1070; £9 in 1086
- Households: 17 villagers; 12 smallholders; 1 slave; 1 men-at-arm
- Plough Teams: 4 lord's ploughs; 11 men's ploughs (15 plough lands)
- Meadow: 4 ploughs
- Woodland: 20 pigs

British Place Names

Yelden, Bedford

Yelden is a village in Bedford

Yelden in historic gazetteers

Yelden in the Domesday Book