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.

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