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Yardley Gobion

Yardley Gobion
Rethatching a cottage in Yardley Gobion - geograph.org.uk - 256622.jpg
Thatching in Yardley Gobion
Yardley Gobion is located in Northamptonshire
Yardley Gobion
Yardley Gobion
Location within Northamptonshire
Population1,348 (2011)
OS grid referenceSP766447
• London62 miles (100 km) SE
Civil parish
  • Yardley Gobion
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTOWCESTER
Postcode districtNN12
Dialling code01908
PoliceNorthamptonshire
FireNorthamptonshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

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.

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