Yardley Gobion

Yardley Gobion

Thatching in Yardley Gobion
Yardley Gobion
 Yardley Gobion shown within Northamptonshire
Population 1,348 (2011)
OS grid referenceSP766447
    London  62 miles (100 km) SE 
Civil parishYardley Gobion
DistrictSouth Northamptonshire
Shire countyNorthamptonshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town TOWCESTER
Postcode district NN12
Dialling code 01908
Police Northamptonshire
Fire Northamptonshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK ParliamentSouth Northamptonshire
List of places
UK
England
Northamptonshire

Coordinates: 52°05′45″N 0°52′59″W / 52.09578°N 0.88318°W / 52.09578; -0.88318

Yardley Gobion is a village in the south of the English county of Northamptonshire off a by-pass of the A508 Northampton to Milton Keynes road.

Governance

It has a parish council with 11 members

Facilities

The Grand Union Canal runs nearby east of the village.

In 1979 it featured on the Blue Peter television series when presenter Simon Groom visited a breeder of St Bernards in the village.

The noted Victorian botanist George Claridge Druce, later Mayor of Oxford, went to school in the village.

References

    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yardley Gobion.
    This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/1/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.