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|os_grid_reference= SP601470|civil_parish = Weston and Weedon|unitary_england= West Northamptonshire|lieutenancy_england= Northamptonshire|region= East Midlands|country= EnglandSouth Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency)>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 {{convert|5.5|mi|0}} west of Towcester. In 1931 the parish had a population of 296.WEB,visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10283887/cube/TOT_POP, Population statistics Weedon Lois AP/CP through time, A Vision of Britain through Time, 27 March 2023,

History

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.WEB,kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Weedon%20Lois, Key to English Place-names, 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.{{NHLE |num= 1371888 |desc=Church of St Mary |date=17 May 1960 |accessdate=10 November 2013}} 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”.WEB,www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/towcester.html, Towcester Registration District, UKBMD, 27 March 2023,

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Further reading

• BOOK, Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nikolaus Pevsner, Cherry, Bridget (revision), 1973, 1961, Northamptonshire, Pevsner Architectural GuidesBuildings of England, The Buildings of England, 2nd, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 0-14-071022-1, 448–449,
• BOOK, RCHME, 1982, Weston and Weedon, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, 4 – Archaeological sites in South-West Northamptonshire, London, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 163–167,www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=126593,

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