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Civil parish  Weobley
Ceremonial county  Herefordshire
Country  England
Population  1,255 (2011)
Dialling code  01544
Unitary authority  Herefordshire
Region  West Midlands
Sovereign state  United Kingdom
Local time  Monday 5:49 AM
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Weather  7°C, Wind NW at 6 km/h, 79% Humidity

Weobley herefordshire

Weobley (/ˈwɛbli/ WEB-lee) is a large village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. Formerly a market town, it is today one of the county's black and white villages.


Map of Weobley, Hereford, UK

The name possibly derives from 'Wibba's Ley', a ley being a woodland glade and Wibba being a local Saxon landowner. In the Domesday Book the village name was transcribed as Wibelai. It is still pronounced as "Web-ley" (the spelling being similar to nearby Leominster which also does not pronounce the letter 'o' in its name).

It is known that brewing and glove-making were carried out in the village during the Saxon period.

The village has an historic church, the Church of St Peter and St Paul, with a Norman south doorway, a 13th-century chancel and 14th-century tower and a spire that is the second-tallest in the county; castle ruins; a high school (Weobley High School) and a primary school with a pioneering system of heating.

In the village is 'the Throne', a large 400-year-old building - King Charles I spent the night here on 5 September 1645, after the Battle of Naseby during the English Civil War.

It was once incorporated as a borough, sending two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons until the Reform Act 1832, (see Weobley (UK Parliament constituency)) and once had a borough corporation.

In 2001 the artist Walenty Pytel completed a sculpture of a magpie for the village (a magpie is the village's emblem). The sculpture was commissioned after the village won the Calor Gas/Daily Telegraph Great Britain Village of the Year in 1999.

On 3 August 2016, the BBC's The One Show was broadcast entirely from Weobley.

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Weobley is part of the electoral ward called Golden Cross and Weobley. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 2,985.


Weobley Wikipedia

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