Weedon Lois

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Weedon Lois
Northamptonshire

St Mary and St Peter, Weedon Lois
Location
Grid reference: SP601470
Location: 52°7’5"N, 1°7’26"W
Data
Post town: Northampton
Postcode: NN12
Dialling code: 01327
Local Government
Council: West Northamptonshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
South Northamptonshire
Website: Weston and Weedon Parish Council

Weedon Lois (or Lois Weedon) is a village in Northamptonshire, about five and a half miles west of Towcester.

The village's name is in two parts: 'Weedon' means 'Heathen temple hill'. There is a well in the parish, named after St Loys or Lewis, whose waters apparently cured the blind and Leprous, hence the suffix.[1]

Church

The oldest parts of the parish church, St Mary and St Peter, date from about 1100. It is a Grade II* listed building.[2] The authors Edith Sitwell and her brother Sacheverell Sitwell are buried in the churchyard, as are Michael Aris and American author James Purdy.

Outside links

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