History
The affix 'Hastings' is the surname of the Earls of Pembroke of the third creation; it distinguishes the village from nearby Yardley Gobion.
Thomas Dudley was born in Yardley Hastings in 1576. He sailed to New England on the Arbella in 1630 and became Governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He signed the charter of Harvard College in 1650.
Yardley Hastings is the village in which Marianne Faithfull's character Maggie lives in the 2007 film Irina Palm.
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