Yelden, Bedfordshire

[From Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831.]

YIELDING, or YELDEN, a parish in the hundred of STODDEN, county of BEDFORD, 3¾ miles (E.) from Higham-Ferrers, containing 279 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £13.13.4., and in the patronage of the Rev. E. S. Bunting. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.