Yardley Gobion
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Yardley Gobion | |
Northamptonshire | |
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Thatching in Yardley Gobion | |
Location | |
Grid reference: | SP766447 |
Location: | 52°5’45"N, 0°52’59"W |
Data | |
Population: | 1,348 (2011) |
Post town: | Towcester |
Postcode: | NN12 |
Dialling code: | 01908 |
Local Government | |
Council: | West Northamptonshire |
Parliamentary constituency: |
South Northamptonshire |
Yardley Gobion is a village and civil parish in the south of Northamptonshire, adjacent to the border with Buckinghamshire. The village sits just off the A508 Northampton to Milton Keynes road. The civil parish corresponds to the township of the ancient parish of Potterspury, with the addition of Potterspury Lodge.
Facilities
The Grand Union Canal runs nearby east of the village.
The noted Victorian botanist George Claridge Druce, later Mayor of Oxford, went to school in the village.
Outside links
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Yardley Gobion) |
- Yardley Gobion Parish Council.
- Website of the village's primary school
- War Memorial details
- 1st Yardley Gobion Scout Group
- History of Yardley Gobion
- A Short Aerial Video of Yardley Gobion - Jan 2015