YAXLEY, a parish, with a village, in Hartismere district, Suffolk; 1½ mile E of Mellis r. station, and 2 W of Eye. It has a post-office under Eye. Acres, 1,238. Real property, £2,720. Pop., 510. Houses, 60. The property is much subdivided. Y. Hall is a Tudor mansion. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £150.* Patron, the Rev. W. H. Sewell. The church is good; and there are two dissenting chapels, and charities £42.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))