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Yardley is an area in East Birmingham , England . It is also a Formal District , managed by its own District Committee . Birmingham Yardley is a Constituency and its Member Of Parliament is John Hemming . Yardley has three Main Primary Schools . These are Yardley, Hobmoor and Lyndon Green . It also has Two Main Secondary Schools , which are Cockshut Hill and Sheldon Heath. Yardley's main Shopping Area is known as Yew Tree, named after the Yew that stood on the Roundabout at the Junction in the Centre of Yardley. Sadly, it was damaged during work to the roundabout, and ended up having to be cut down. It was later replaced by another tree, which is still growing; however, a local Ecologist claimed that the tree is not a yew but a Poplar Tree . Yardley was once well known for its Pub , also called The Yew Tree, which was shut down and set on fire twice. One of the fires caused an adjacent road, Stoney Lane, to be closed to traffic for one day. It was later demolished and replaced by a Co-op Supermarket and a set of Restaurant s. Yardley is not a new town. Yardley is named in the Domesday Book and was referred to as early as 972 in a passage written by Monks , who called it Gyrdleah . However, the boundaries of the medieval parish- which survived until 1911 , when it was incorporated into Birmingham- are nothing like that of the modern district. Yardley has a Tudor hall called Blakesley Hall and an old Church that also dates back to the Tudor Period . A sign of its age is a doorway surrounded by Tudor Roses and a Pomegranate , commemorating the marriage of Prince Arthur, Prince Of Wales , to Catherine Of Aragon . A sizeable amount of Yardley, called Old Yardley, is a conservation area. Yardley's nearest Train Station is Stechford . It is served by many West Midlands buses, most connecting to Birmingham city centre, Chelmsley Wood and Solihull . Yardley has also had a Royal visit by Princess Anne . She drove herself to Yardley and visited a Charity Shop run by Sense , an organisation which helps Blind people. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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