Yardley Gobion

Round here

The bridge has its date cast above the arch: 1936. The wharf is older, built by the Grafton Estate in 1801, and it still sells diesel and coal to passing boats.

Poster drawing of brick Bridge 60 over the canal with narrowboats beyond

The whole village, on one sheet

Drawn from OpenStreetMap, so those are the real fields. Tap a number to find it in the key.

Map of Yardley Gobion, with numbered places listed in the key below itHesketh RoadWarren RoadEastfield CrescentHigh StreetGrafton RoadGrand Union CanalOne Stop and Post Office1The Coffee Pot2Village Hall3St Leonard's Church4Chestnut Road Chapel5Primary School6Pre-School and Children's Centre7Sports and Leisure Centre8The Green9Water tower10Yardley Wharf and Bridge 6011Moor End Castle moat12
  1. 1 One Stop and Post OfficeSchool Lane
  2. 2 The Coffee PotHigh Street
  3. 3 Village HallChestnut Road
  4. 4 St Leonard's ChurchConsecrated 22 December 1864. The pocket park is behind it.
  5. 5 Chestnut Road ChapelUnited Reformed
  6. 6 Primary SchoolSchool Lane
  7. 7 Pre-School and Children's CentreSchool Lane
  8. 8 Sports and Leisure CentreSchool Lane
  9. 9 The GreenThatch, fingerpost and the old village well
  10. 10 Water towerBuilt 1934, the last part of the village waterworks still standing
  11. 11 Yardley Wharf and Bridge 60Grand Union Canal
  12. 12 Moor End Castle moatPlease stick to the public footpaths

Three good reasons to put your boots on

The towpath. Join the Grand Union at Yardley Wharf. North takes you along the canal to Stoke Bruerne's locks and Canal Museum, about three and a half miles and seven locks on. South heads towards Cosgrove.

The Pocket Park. An old orchard beside St Leonard's. The land was given to the church in 1924 by the botanist George Claridge Druce in memory of his mother, and about 200 people came to see the park opened on 7 November 1999.

The paths to Moor End. Footpaths run out west from the village towards Moor End, where a wooded island in a moat is all that's left of the castle. Further west runs Watling Street, the Roman road that forms most of the parish boundary. The Queen's Oak, where Edward IV is said to have met Elizabeth Woodville, stood out this way until fire and time finished it in the 1990s.