YEARDSLEY, a township, joint with Whaley, in
the parish of TAXALL, hundred of MACCLESFIELD,
county palatine of CHESTER, 9 miles (S. E. by E.) from
Stockport. The population is returned with Whaley.
There is a place of worship forWesleyan Methodists,
with a Sunday school attached. The river Goyt, and
the Peak Forest canal, run through the parish, and from
the latter a railway passes to the Connesford canal.
Here are extensive collieries, and one of the seams of
coal is crossed by a rich vein of lead. In the village
of Yeardsley, which is a place of considerable antiquity,
the manufacture of tape is carried on to a limited
extent.