Yardley, Birmingham

Coordinates: 52°28′N 1°49′W / 52.467°N 1.817°W / 52.467; -1.817
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Yardley constituency shown within Birmingham.

Yardley is an area in east

district committee. Historically it lay within Worcestershire.[1]

Member of Parliament is Jess Phillips
, elected in May 2015.

The area of Gilbertstone straddles the border of Yardley and South Yardley.

Features

Old Yardley Grammar School within the conservation zone.
St Edburgha's Church (Old Yardley Church) within the conservation zone.

Yardley's main shopping area is known as Yew Tree, named after a 1919 public house, The Yew Tree, that was demolished in 2000 to make way for the shopping centre.

better source needed] Prior to the building of the public house, this was the site of the 19th century Yardley House, presumably incorporating a yew tree.[3]
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The Swan public house run by Ansells Brewery was, for a time, the largest in Great Britain with eight bars and a total drinking area of almost 14,000 square feet serving over 1,000 customers.[4]

In 2012, the Swan Shopping Centre was opened in the area serving the Yardley area in the place of the old Swan Centre which used to hold markets.

History

Yardley Council House, Sparkhill
, 2007
See also: History of Worcestershire and History of Birmingham

Parish of Yardley

Yardley is not a town. The ancient parish of Yardley included the areas known as

Edgar's Charter where it is named Gyrdleah. It was mentioned as being under the possession of Pershore Abbey
. Yardley also contains a moated medieval site called "Kent's Moat". Now dry, it has retained its depth and shape remarkably well considering its age, as excavations have shown evidence of inhabitation from as early as the 12th century.

Yardley has a

Tudor roses and a pomegranate, commemorating the marriage of Prince Arthur, Prince of Wales, to Catherine of Aragon
.

Yardley had a manor that was owned by various lords. It remained unoccupied from 1700 onwards. It was owned by the Royal Family until 1626, when it was bought by

Lloyds Bank, bought the lordship in 1766. Most of the land, had by then, been purchased by other people so Taylor owned only a small portion of the original grounds.[5]

Yardley Rural District

Map
Map of present boundaries
Worcestershire[6] 1831 1901
Broadway 1,517 1,414
Pershore 5,275 4,825
Yardley 2,488 33,946

Yardley Rural District was a local government administrative district formed from the

Yardley Council House
was originally erected to house the Rural District Council (Yardley RDC).

By 1911 Yardley was a residential suburb of Birmingham and was annexed to

Worcestershire coat of arms
.

A small section of Yardley, called Old Yardley, was granted conservation area status in 1969, becoming Birmingham's first conservation area.[8]

In 1981, an Arcon V

prefab home on Moat Lane was dismantled and transported to Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings.[9]

Education

Yardley has five main primary schools. These are Yardley, Blakesley Hall, Lyndon Green, Oasis Academy Hobmoor and St. Bernedettes. It also has two main secondary schools, which are Cockshut Hill School and King Edward VI Sheldon Heath Academy.

Hobmoor Primary School moved to new premises in Summer 2007. The former building has been demolished and the site remains vacant to be redeveloped.

Transport

Yardley's nearest

railway station is Stechford railway station. It is served by National Express West Midlands bus routes 11A, 11C, 17, 58, 60, 73, X1 and X2, connecting to Birmingham city centre, outer circle, Chelmsley Wood and Solihull
and Claribel Coaches route S16.

The area used to be well-served by horse-buses and then by steam buses. Electric trams were then introduced and they travelled across a new bridge at the River Cole to the Swan.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Great Britain and Ireland - interactive county map". wikishire.co.uk.
  2. ^ "The Yew Tree". History of Birmingham Places A to Y. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  3. ^ Western Brewer, and Journal of the Barley, Malt and Hop Trades. Gibson Publishing Company. 1936.
  4. ISBN 0-85112-232-9
    .
  5. ^
    ISBN 0-7524-0339-7
    )
  6. ^ Lloyd 1993, pp. 106–107.
  7. ^ GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. "Yardley RD through time | Census tables with data for the Local Government District". A Vision of Britain through Time.
  8. ^ "Birmingham UK Com". birminghamuk.com.
  9. ISBN 0-419-24680-0
    .

Bibliography

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