William Dargue A History of BIRMINGHAM Places & Placenames from A to Y
Church End, Yardley
B25 - Grid reference SP134863
![Yardley Village - image by Anne-Marie Hayes on the Birmingham Conservation Trust website](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=420x1024:format=jpg/path/s0031f87db135fdc9/image/i8882ff638573cd24/version/1609069781/image.jpg)
As a relatively large manor, some 12 miles long by 7 miles wide, Yardley was divided into three adminstrative districts or ends from Elizabethan times. However, the use of the name Church End was probably in use well before that. This end was focussed around Yardley church and village and lay north of the Coventry Road within a great crook of the River Cole to the west and north. The name is no longer in use.
![Yardley church and village viewed from Old Yardley Park. Image by Robert C Jones on the Birmingham Conservation Trust website](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s0031f87db135fdc9/image/i5652ccdf81387616/version/1605178075/image.jpg)
William Dargue 01.08.2010