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Yateley () is a town and
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in the English county of
Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...
. It lies in the north-eastern corner of
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area. It includes the settlements of
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and
Darby Green Darby Green is a village in the parish of Yateley, North East Hampshire, England. The electoral ward of Frogmore and Darby Green is separated from the rest of the parish by a small gap around Clarks Farm, until recently a composting farm in the ...
to the east. It had a population of 21,011 at the 2001
census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...
. The four wards that comprise Yateley and their 2001 populations are Yateley East (5,168), Yateley North (5,078), Yateley West (5,149), and Frogmore & Darby Green (5,616). The 2009 projection was 20,214, according to the Hart District Council website.Yateley Town Council
/ref> Yateley Town Council is one of the few local councils to have been recognised under the national 'Quality Council' award scheme.Quality Council Award
/ref> In 2011 Hart district was named the UK's most desirable place to live, and Yateley was mentioned on a
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article as one of the towns within the district.


History

The name ''Yateley'' derives from the
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'Yate' meaning 'Gate' (into Windsor Forest) and 'Lea' which was a 'forest clearing'. Although in historic records, variations of the spelling include Hyatele, Yateleghe, Yatche, Yatelighe, Yeatley, Yeateley and Yatelegh.


Amenities

The parish church is St Peter's. It was badly damaged in a fire in 1979 and subsequently restored. Its outstanding feature is an early 16th century wooden bell tower housing a ring of eight bells. The tower survived the fire but the bells were cracked and had to be recast. The church is a Grade II
listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
. The ''White Lion'' pub, is also Grade II listed.


Sports

Yateley Football Club was established in 1927 for men's football. In 1967 Yateley Juniors FC was formed. In 2008 both these clubs, and two others, merged to form a single club called Yateley United FC. Yateley United currently compete in the Thames Valley Premier League and play their games at the newly developed Sean Devereux Park. Yateley Cricket Club (YCC) was established in 1881, originally playing at the Cricketers Pub on Cricket Hill, and then on โ€œThe Greenโ€ on the Reading Road. In 1999 YCC moved to a new purpose built ground and clubhouse at Sean Devereux Park.


Education

Following the closure and amalgamation of St Peter's
Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britai ...
Junior School and Yateley Infant School, a new primary school opened in September 2010. Named Cranford Park CE Primary School. Yateley School is the largest secondary school in north-east Hampshire. It caters for children aged 11 to 16 and has an attached sixth-form college. Frogmore Community College is another secondary school in Yateley. Yateley Manor School is an independent school catering for around 500 pupils aged 3 to 13.


Notable people

*Singer Alexa Goddard attended Yateley School. *
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, author of the trilogy of novels '
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' is recorded in the 1901 Census as living and working in the Yateley Post Office. These books have since been adapted for television by the
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. *
Sonny Black William Boazman, known as Sonny Black, is an acoustic guitarist based in the UK, who plays blues, rags and original compositions usually fingerstyle or slide. "Sonny Black" is a pseudonym adopted when he began the first Sonny Black's Blues ...
a leading UK acoustic guitarist also lives in Yateley. *Contemporary artist James Robert Ford grew up in Yateley and attended Yateley School. A number of his projects, including House Gymnastics, General Carbuncle, and 33 Things to do before you're 10, have taken place in Yateley. * Chris Benham, a Hampshire cricketer, grew up in Yateley and attended Yateley School. *Author Danny King grew up in Yateley and attended Yateley School. * Sean Devereux, a charity worker in
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, came from Yateley. He was assassinated and Sean Devereux Park is named after him. *
David Copeland The 1999 London nail bombings were a series of bomb explosions in London, England. Over three successive weekends between 17 and 30 April 1999, homemade nail bombs were detonated respectively in Brixton in South London; at Brick Lane, Spitalfiel ...
, known as the "London Nailbomber" after a 13-day bombing campaign in April 1999 aimed at London's black, Asian, and gay communities, grew up in Yateley, though residing in nearby
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in Farnborough at the time of the attack. * Robert Morgan, stop-motion animation filmmaker, grew up here. * Jed Wallace, a professional footballer playing for
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attended Frogmore Community College. * Aaron Kuhl, a semi-professional former
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footballer, currently playing for
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, lives in Yateley.


References


External links

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h2g2 Yateley Edited Guide Entry

Yateley Town Council
{{authority control Towns in Hampshire