Yaxley
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YAXLEY in White's 1855 Directory
Transcribed by Colin Ager
YAXLEY, in the parliamentary borough, and 1½ mile W. of Eye, and 2 miles E. of
Mellis Station, is a scattered village and parish, containing 507 inhabitants,
and 1238A. 2R. 6P. of land, partly copyhold. Sir E. C. Kerrison, Bart., is lord
of the manor, but the greater part of the soil belongs to Lord Henniker, J.
Garden, Esq., J. Cobbold Esq., P. R. Welch, Esq., and several smaller owners.
Yaxley Hall, a large and handsome mansion, in the Elizabethan style, with
extensive plantations and pleasure grounds, is the seat and property of P. R.
Welsh, Esq. The Church (St. Mary) is an ancient structure, with a beautiful
porch, and a tower containing six bells. The porch is of late perpendicular
work, and is one of the handsomest in the county. The rood screen is entire, and
the chancel retains the old choir seats, a holy sepulchre, and a low side
window. In the east window are some fine fragments of painted glass. The
vicarage, valued in K.B. at £6. 6s. 5½d., is in the patronage of Mrs. Ann
Sewell, and incumbency of the Rev. E. A. Cobbold, B.A., who has a good Vicarage
House, built in 1848, and 25A. of glebe. He has now a yearly rent charge of
£139, awarded in 1842, in lieu of tithes. The rectorial tithes have been
commuted for £287. 17s. per annum, of which £26. 13s. belongs to Lord Henniker;
£18. 15s. to J. Cobbold, Esq.; and the remainder to Sir E. C. Kerrison, Bart.
The Town Estate has for a long period been appropriated to the use of the
church, the reparation of the houses used for the poor, and the payment of the
constable’s expenses: and when any surplus remains, it is applied in clothing
poor children, or binding them out apprentices. The estate comprises the
Guildhall and cottages occupied by poor parishioners; 11 acres of common; and a
cottage and 22A. 3R. 9P. of land in this and neighbouring parishes, let to
various tenants, in 1829, at rents amounting to £35. 19s. 4d. per annum. The
poor have a yearly rent charge of £4, left by an unknown donor, out of Yaxley
Hall estate; and two others, of 8s. each, left by John Roe and John Clarke, out
of a cottage and four acres belonging to Mr. Welton. Yaxley Hall is also charged
with the yearly payment of £1. 13s. 4d. for repairing the highways.