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"YELVERTOFT, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 9 miles N.E. of Daventry, 8 E. of Rugby, and 4½ S.W. of Welford. The village is situated on the Warwickshire border, near the Grand Junction canal, and is watered by a brook which falls into the Avon. The land is chiefly in pasture, and the soil a mixture of clay and rich loam. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £500. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The Independents have a chapel, and there is a school endowed by Mrs. Ashby in 1719, with land now producing £40 per annum, also poors' land let for £15 per annum, which is distributed to the poor at Christmas." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"YELVERTOFT, a parish in the hundred of Guilsborough, county Northampton, 9 miles N.E. of Daventry, 8 E. of Rugby, and 4½ S.W. of Welford. The village is situated on the Warwickshire border, near the Grand Junction canal, and is watered by a brook which falls into the Avon. The land is chiefly in pasture, and the soil a mixture of clay and rich loam. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £500. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The Independents have a chapel, and there is a school endowed by Mrs. Ashby in 1719, with land now producing £40 per annum, also poors' land let for £15 per annum, which is distributed to the poor at Christmas."

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