Yelling is a linear village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire administrative district of Cambridgeshire, England. The village is about 5 miles east of St Neots and 6 miles south of Huntingdon. Yelling is in the former county of Huntingdonshire. Its toponym has had various spellings in recorded history, including Gellinge, Gylling and Illyng. The name is t…Yelling is a linear village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire administrative district of Cambridgeshire, England. The village is about 5 miles east of St Neots and 6 miles south of Huntingdon. Yelling is in the former county of Huntingdonshire. Its toponym has had various spellings in recorded history, including Gellinge, Gylling and Illyng. The name is thought to be derived from the manorial family Gill or Gell. The village was listed as Gelinge, Gellinge and Ghellinge in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Toseland in Huntingdonshire. In 1086 there were two manors at Yelling and 25 households.