In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Yelvertoft like this:
YELVERTOFT, a parish, with a village, in the district of Rugby and county of Northampton; on the Grand Union canal, 2½ miles S of Stanford-Hall r. station, and 7 E of Rugby. It has a post-office under Rugby. Acres, 2,080. Real property, £5,083. Pop., 631. Houses, 166. The land is chiefly pasture. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £487.* Patron, the Earl of Craven. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel, a free school, and town land s £15.
Yelvertoft through time
Yelvertoft is now part of Daventry district. Click here for graphs and data of how Daventry has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Yelvertoft itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Yelvertoft, in Daventry and Northamptonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8369
Date accessed: 28th April 2024
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