Yardley Gobion
# Yardley Gobion

Yardley Gobion (/ˌjɑːrdli ˈɡoʊbiən/ YARD-lee-GOH-bee-ən) is a village in the south of the English county of Northamptonshire off a by-pass of the A508 Northampton to Milton Keynes road.

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

## 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.

