Willey is a rural village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 145, increasing to 155 at the 2011 census.[1]

Willey
The Main Street in Willey
Willey Location within Warwickshire
Population	155 (2011)
OS grid reference	SP495848
Civil parish	Willey
District	Rugby
Shire county	Warwickshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Rugby
Postcode district	CV23
Police	Warwickshire
Fire	Warwickshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Rugby
List of places UK England Warwickshire 52.45891°N 1.27293°W / 52.45891; -1.27293

Willey is the only village in Warwickshire to have a name of likely pre-christian origin. The name is thought to derive from the Old English weoh which means "temple or holy place," which may therefore mean the village was the site of such a temple or shrine.[2]

Administratively it forms part of the borough of Rugby; geographically it is about six miles (10 km) north of Rugby, just west of the A5 road (Watling Street) that marks the county boundary with Leicestershire. Just to the east of the village are the remains of the dismantled Rugby to Leicester railway line.[3]

The village church of St Leonard in Willey is Grade II* listed.[4]

The village pub in Willey is called the "Sarah Mansfield"; it gained that name in the 1970s, when the then licensee named it in memory of his grandmother. The pub was previously named "The Plough.".[3]

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