Yardley Gobion

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Yardley Gobion
 Yardley Gobion shown within Northamptonshire
Population 1,348 (2011 UK Census)
OS grid reference SP766447
   – London 62 mi (100 km)  
Civil parish Yardley Gobion
District South Northamptonshire
Shire county Northamptonshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town TOWCESTER
Postcode district NN12 7
Dialling code 01908
Police Northamptonshire
Fire Northamptonshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament Current: Northampton South
From next General Election: South Northamptonshire
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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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