About Yardley, Pennsylvania

Yardley is a borough of 2,605 people in Bucks County, on the Delaware River across from Ewing Township, New Jersey. Before he left England, William Yardley, a yeoman from near Leek in Staffordshire, struck a deal with William Penn to buy 500 acres for ten pounds. He and his wife Jane reached the falls of the Delaware on September 28, and in October 1682 his land was surveyed. He called it Prospect Farm, and it lay just beyond the present borough line.

William Yardley died in 1693, and the rest of his household died in 1702 and 1703, perhaps of smallpox. A village started to take shape about 1807. Its first post office, opened in 1828, went by Yardleyville, but when the Reading Railroad came through in 1876 the town went back to plain Yardley. It had 820 people by 1880 and was incorporated as a borough on March 4, 1895.

  • A Delaware ferry from 1710Thomas Yardley, William's nephew, sailed over in 1704 to settle his uncle's estate and stayed for good. In 1710 he started a ferry from Letchworth Avenue, at the lower edge of the village, to a landing downstream in New Jersey. It tied West Jersey to the three roads that ran to Philadelphia through Falls, Langhorne and Newtown, and the Yardleys held the land for more than 150 years.
  • At Penn's assembly in UplandWilliam Yardley was one of three men from Bucks County, with Christopher Taylor and Griffith Jones, at the assembly Penn called at Upland on the 4th of December. In four days it passed about one hundred urgent acts, among them the act of Union joining the territories of New Castle and Kent.
  • Hiding places on the Underground RailroadYardley was a stop for people escaping slavery. Some hid in the low space beneath the roof of the Continental Hotel, today the Continental Tavern. Others hid in the bins of warehouses along the Delaware Canal, finished in 1862, and in the General Store, which is now Worthington Insurance. A brick-walled cellar room at Lakeside, the yellow house on N. Main Street that faces Lake Afton, is believed to have sheltered them too.
  • Spokes, felloes and flourAs the village grew, its people built a spoke and handle factory, a felloe factory, a sawmill, a plaster mill and two flour mills.
  • Train collectors since 1954The Reading's main line from Philadelphia to Bound Brook, New Jersey, stopped at Yardley and crossed the Delaware on a huge stone viaduct. SEPTA's West Trenton Line still stops at the Yardley station, and the Train Collectors Association was founded here in 1954.

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Names on the Yardley map

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Places and landmarks2

  • Buttonwood Park
  • Yardley Country Club

Streets and roads55

  • West Afton Avenue
  • East Afton Avenue
  • North Delaware Avenue
  • South Delaware Avenue
  • North Main Street
  • Taylorville Road
  • South Main Street
  • Yardley Cmns
  • Windsor Road
  • North Edgewater Avenue
  • Reading Avenue
  • Morgan Avenue
  • West College Avenue
  • South Bell Avenue
  • Creekview Lane
  • Ludlow Road
  • Letchworth Avenue
  • East College Avenue
  • Lookover Lane
  • Breece Drive
  • Oxford Road
  • Sandy Run Road
  • Pennsylvania Avenue
  • Carrs Lane
  • South Canal Street
  • Penn Valley Drive
  • Longshore Avenue
  • Cadwallader Court
  • Canal Street
  • Riverview Avenue
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  • Bell Avenue
  • Halls Lane
  • Harper Avenue
  • Lincoln Avenue
  • University Drive
  • Wayfaring Lane
  • Lantern Court
  • Brown Street
  • Jervue Drive
  • Iron Horse Drive
  • Maple Avenue
  • Ferry Street
  • McKinley Avenue
  • Ziaylek Drive
  • South Street
  • Fuld Road
  • Florence Avenue
  • South Edgewater Avenue
  • Cold Springs Avenue
  • Van Horn Avenue
  • Irving Street
  • Harlow Court
  • Winslade Way
  • Yardley Station Drive
  • Dolington Road

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