{{Short description|Village in Derbyshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |country = England |static_image = Yeaveley_church_368688_c31bcd9a.jpg |static_image_width = 240px |static_image_caption = The red brick Holy Trinity church |coordinates = {{coord|52.960|-1.724|display=inline,title}} |map_type = Derbyshire |official_name = Yeaveley |population = |shire_district = Derbyshire Dales | shire_county = Derbyshire |region = East Midlands |constituency_westminster = Derbyshire Dales |post_town = ASHBOURNE |postcode_district = DE6 |postcode_area = DE |dial_code = 01335 |os_grid_reference = SK186403 }}
'''Yeaveley''' is a small village and civil parish near Rodsley and 4 miles south of Ashbourne in Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish (including Rodsley) as at the 2011 census was 396.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11131081&c=Yeaveley&d=16&e=62&g=6413763&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1459345641847&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=30 March 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|archive-date=21 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921080954/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11131081&c=Yeaveley&d=16&e=62&g=6413763&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1459345641847&enc=1|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The village has no school but does have a public house and the Holy Trinity Church. During the reign of Richard I, Ralph Foun gave a hermitage at Yeaveley with lands, waters, woods, mills, and other appurtenances to the Knights Hospitallers.<ref>'House of Knights Hospitallers: The preceptory of Yeaveley and Barrow', A History of the County of Derby: Volume 2 (1907), pp. 75-77. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40128 url]. Date accessed: 21 April 2008.</ref>
==Notable residents== Henry Yevele, medieval architect of Westminster Abbey nave, was born here c. 1320.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.derbyshireuk.net/yeaveley.html |title=Yeaveley |publisher=DerbyshireUK |access-date=16 July 2020}}</ref>
John Jackson Oakden, pioneer pastoralist and explorer of South Australia, was born here 1818.
Roy Wood, musician (Wizzard), lives in nearby Cubley.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Roy Wood - Wizard - Famous Derbyshire People|url=http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/roy-wood-wizard-famous-derbyshire-people-c2520.html|access-date=2020-07-15|website=www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk}}</ref>
==See also== *Listed buildings in Yeaveley
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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Yeaveley}}
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