Weedon Lois
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Weedon Lois (or Lois Weedon) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Weston and Weedon, in the West Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. It is about 5.5 miles (9 km) west of Towcester. In 1931 the parish had a population of 296.[1]
History
The villages name means 'Heathen temple hill'. There is a well in the parish, named after St. Loys or Lewis, whose waters apparently cured the Blind and Leprous.[2]
Before Christianity came there may have been an Anglo-Saxon pagan temple here.
The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of SS Mary and Peter date from about 1100.[3] It is a Grade II* listed building.[3] The authors Edith Sitwell and her brother Sacheverell Sitwell are buried in the churchyard, as are Michael Aris and American author James Purdy.
On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Plumpton to form "Weston & Weedon".[4]
References
- ^ "Population statistics Weedon Lois AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
- ^ "Key to English Place-names".
- ^ a b Historic England (17 May 1960). "Church of St Mary (1371888)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ "Towcester Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
Further reading
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1973) [1961]. Northamptonshire. The Buildings of England (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 448–449. ISBN 0-14-071022-1.
- RCHME, ed. (1982). "Weston and Weedon". An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire. Vol. 4 – Archaeological sites in South-West Northamptonshire. London: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. pp. 163–167.
External links
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