Yarkhill
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Yarkhill is a village in Herefordshire, England located about from both Hereford and Ledbury.
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- Yarkhill
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- England
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- United Kingdom
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- Population
- 326
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Yarkhill is a village in Herefordshire, England located about from both Hereford and Ledbury.
The village is Anglo-Saxon in origin and is a much dispersed parish, with no definable nucleus, of approximately 145 homes spread over some , comprising about 300 people. It borders the villages of Ashperton, Stoke Edith, Stretton Grandison, Tarrington and Weston Beggard. Yarkhill lies in the valley of the River Frome; in 811 the name of this settlement was Geardcylle, meaning enclosure with a kiln. In 1066 it was held by a Knight of King Harold called Arkell and the present name of Yarkhill may have derived from that or from the Saxon word Yarcle meaning slope of the hill. The sister churches of Tarrington and Stoke Edith can be seen on the other side of the valley. Yarkhill was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and has been a farming community around the River Frome since that time. Yarkhill once had a school but that has been converted into a village hall.
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