# Yarwell > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Yarwell > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Yarwell.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarwell > Source revision: 1355948417 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Yarwell** is a village on the [River Nene](/source/River_Nene) in the extreme east of the [English](/source/England) county of [Northamptonshire](/source/Northamptonshire) near the border with [Cambridgeshire](/source/Cambridgeshire). Yarwell is one mile north of [Nassington](/source/Nassington), 7 + 1⁄2 miles (12 km) west of [Peterborough](/source/Peterborough) and its [county town](/source/County_town) of [Northampton](/source/Northampton) is 30 miles (48 km) to the south-west.[1] The name Yarwell is derived from 'the spring where the [yarrow](/source/Yarrow) grows'.[citation needed] At the time of the [2001 census](/source/United_Kingdom_Census_2001), the parish's population was 316 people,[2] reducing to 294 at the 2011 Census.[3] The village's name origin is dubious. '[Fish](/source/Fish)-[weir](/source/Weir) spring/stream' or maybe, '[yarrow grass](/source/Achillea_millefolium) spring/stream'. It has been thought that the second component could be the [Old English](/source/Old_English) 'wael' meaning 'pool'.[4] Yarwell was not recorded in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book), however, it probably was recorded as part of [Nassington](/source/Nassington).[5] During the [Middle Ages](/source/Middle_Ages), the village was surrounded by the [Rockingham Forest](/source/Rockingham_Forest). The village was never large, in 1580 it was recorded as having 39 houses, and in 1801 it was recorded as containing 58 families.[5] Yarwell has a [pub](/source/Pub) called The Angel Inn. The village is also home to a village hall and the 13th-century Church of St. Mary Magdalene. The majority of the church building is original with walls made of limestone rubble with [freestone dressings](/source/Freestone_(masonry)) however the west tower was rebuilt probably in the 17th century. Until 1892, the church's roof was thatched.[5] One of the village's two farms has been converted into a housing development and the other has applied for planning permission. Until recently,[when?] there was a [Methodist](/source/Methodism) church in the village; the post office closed in 1993. The village school closed in the early 1960s and in 2003 was redeveloped into three houses. In total there are about 130 houses in Yarwell. Yarwell and Nassington Britannia band is the local [brass band](/source/Brass_band) which rehearses in the village hall and draws its players from the surrounding area including [Stamford](/source/Stamford,_Lincolnshire) and [Oundle](/source/Oundle). The [preserved](/source/Heritage_railway) [Nene Valley Railway](/source/Nene_Valley_Railway) has a station at [Yarwell Junction](/source/Yarwell_Junction_railway_station). Before closure in the 1960s, this was the junction of two lines, one from [Market Harborough](/source/Market_Harborough) and the other from [Northampton](/source/Northampton). It is on the Cambridgeshire side of the Nene at . Also nearby is [Old Sulehay](/source/Old_Sulehay_Forest), a historical hunting forest now managed as a [reserve](/source/Nature_reserve). ## References 1. [Office for National Statistics: Yarwell CP: Parish headcounts](http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=797286&c=yarwell&d=16&e=15&g=472617&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1259699086890&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110604071917/http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=797286&c=yarwell&d=16&e=15&g=472617&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1259699086890&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779) 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 1 December 2009 1. ["Civil Parish population 2011"](https://web.archive.org/web/20161011192046/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11131065&c=Yarwell&d=16&e=62&g=6451187&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1468407236844&enc=1). *Neighbourhood Statistics*. Office for National Statistics. Archived from [the original](http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11131065&c=Yarwell&d=16&e=62&g=6451187&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1468407236844&enc=1) on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016. 1. ["Key to English Place-names"](http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Yarwell) 1. 'Yarwell', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6, Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire (London, 1984), pp. 171-176. [British History Online](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol6/pp171-176). ## External links - [Description from a local newspaper](http://www2.stamfordtoday.co.uk/sites/villages/yarwellb.html)[dead link] - [War Memorial details](http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Northamptonshire/Yarwell.html) - [Village web site](http://www.yarwell.com) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Yarwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarwell) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarwell?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.