title: Yardley Gobion
text: # 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.
  
  