Yardley Gobion

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Yardley Gobion (Template:IPA-cen Script error: No such module "Respell".[1]) is a village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England.[2] The village is off a by-pass of the A508 road between Northampton and Milton Keynes.

The village's name means 'rod wood/clearing', where they were made or acquired. Henry Gubyun held land in the village in 1228.[3]

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.

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