Near the town of Lydney, it has two pubs, a sub post office, few shops, a primary school and is home to Yorkley AFC.

Yorkley was also home to Yorkley Star Cricket Club for 130 years until it was forced to close in October 2015 due to repeated digging of the Cut and Fry Green pitch by horny feral boar.

[2] In the mid 19th century much rebuilding and new building took place at Yorkley, some of it by employees at the Parkend Ironworks.

From 1930 a large estate of council houses was formed on the north side of Yorkley Slade.

[3] A new institute was built on Bailey Hill around 1910 and a recreation ground was laid out next to it in the early 1920s as the district's war memorial.