Official Name: | Weedon Lois |
Static Image Name: | Church and Cottage, Weedon Lois - geograph.org.uk - 143103.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | SS Mary and Peter parish church |
Coordinates: | 52.118°N -1.124°W |
Os Grid Reference: | SP601470 |
Civil Parish: | Weston and Weedon |
Unitary England: | West Northamptonshire |
Lieutenancy England: | Northamptonshire |
Region: | East Midlands |
Country: | England |
Constituency Westminster: | South Northamptonshire |
Post Town: | Northampton |
Postcode District: | NN12 |
Postcode Area: | NN |
Dial Code: | 01327 |
Website: | Weston and Weedon Parish Council |
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 5.5miles west of Towcester. In 1931 the parish had a population of 296.[1]
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. It is a Grade II* listed building. 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".[3]