Weobley

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Weobley
Herefordshire
Broad Street, Weobley, Herefordshire - geograph.org.uk - 12581.jpg
Broad Street, Weobley
Location
Location: 52°9’32"N, 2°52’23"W
Data
Post town: Hereford
Postcode: HR4
Dialling code: 01544
Local Government
Council: Herefordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Herefordshire

Weobley is a large village in Herefordshire, large by Herefordshire standards at least; one of the county's famed black and white villages. It was once a market town.

The name possibly derives from 'Wibba's Ley', a ley being a woodland glade and Wibba, presumed the name of a local landowner otherwise unknown. In the Domesday Book the village name was transcribed as Wibelai. It is still pronounced as "Web-ley".

In the Saxon period it is known that brewing and glove-making were carried out in the village.

Parish church

The village has an historic church, the Church of St Peter and St Paul, with a Norman south doorway, a 13th-century chancel and 14th-century tower and a spire that is the second-tallest in the county.

About the village

Weobley Castle, now in ruins, stands by the village. Weobley also has a high school and a primary school. 'The Throne' in the village is a large 400 year old box - King Charles I spent the night here on 5 September 1645, after the Battle of Naseby during the Civil War.

A cruck house in Weobley

Weobley was once incorporated as a borough, sending two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons until the Reform Act 1832, and once it had a borough corporation.

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