Weedon Bec Cemetery

The village's name comes from the Old English Wēo-dūn meaning 'heathen temple hill'. Just to the south of the parish is the 162 m Weedon Hill: In the 12th century, lordship of the village was granted to the monks of the abbey of Le Bec-Hellouin in Normandy. The Fawsley Hundred was disused in the late 19th century as other administrative units superseded its functions, although it continued to appear on early 20th century censuses for statistical purposes. The ancillary villages of Lower Weedon and Upper Weedon formed south of Weedon Bec. The settlement along the A5, the Roman road called Watling Street, was known as 'Road Weedon' and earlier 'Weedon on the Street'. To avoid confusion with…