YATELY, a parish in the hundred of CRONDALL,
Basingstoke division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
3 miles (N. E. by E.) from Hartford-Bridge, containing,
with the tythings of Cove, Hawley, and Minley, 1801
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, endowed with
£800 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and
£1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Marquis of Winchester. The church is dedicated to St.
Peter. Yately is within the jurisdiction of the Cheyney
Court held at Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery
of debts to any amount. Six boys and six girls
are instructed for about £8 a year, being one-third of
the income arising from land bequeathed for charitable
purposes by Mary Barker, in 1706.