Yeaveley is a small village and civil parish near Rodsley and 4 miles south of Ashbourne in Derbyshire.

[1] 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.

[2] Henry Yevele, medieval architect of Westminster Abbey nave, was born here c.

[3] John Jackson Oakden, pioneer pastoralist and explorer of South Australia, was born here 1818.