Weedon Lois (or Lois Weedon) is a village in Weston and Weedon civil parish, about 5.5 miles (9 km) west of Towcester, Northamptonshire, England.

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Weedon Lois
SS Mary and Peter parish church
Weedon Lois Location within Northamptonshire
OS grid reference	SP601470
Civil parish	Weston and Weedon
Unitary authority	West Northamptonshire
Ceremonial county	Northamptonshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Northampton
Postcode district	NN12
Dialling code	01327
Police	Northamptonshire
Fire	Northamptonshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	South Northamptonshire
Website	Weston and Weedon Parish Council
List of places UK England Northamptonshire 52.118°N 1.124°W / 52.118; -1.124

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.[1]

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.[2] It is a Grade II* listed building.[2] The authors Edith Sitwell and her brother Sacheverell Sitwell are buried in the churchyard, as are Michael Aris and American author James Purdy.

References

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.

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