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The 'Bec' part of the name 'Weedon Bec' is derived from the Abbey of Bec-Hellouin in Normandy, France, which owned most of the village until the dissolution of the monasteries, when King Henry VIII granted the village to Eton College.
This was probably in response to traffic along the Old Stratford to Dunchurch Turnpike, created by an Act of Parliament in 1706; the first such road in Northamptonshire. The name Weedon comes from two Anglo-Saxon words: Weoh, meaning a Shrine or Holy Place and Dun, meaning Hill.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Weedon Bec like this: WEEDON, W.-Beck, or W.-on-the-Street, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Daventry district, Northampton.
6 days ago · The common fields of Weedon Bec were enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1777. Ridge-and-furrow of these fields can now be traced either on the ground or from air photographs over less than half of the parish, mainly within a roughly rectangular area around the villages of Upper and Lower Weedon.
The Bec part comes from the name of a village in Normandy which had an important Abbey. After the Norman Conquest the Manor of Weedon was given to the Abbey of Bec & the Abbey became Lord of the Manor. We were surprised at what we found in Weedon & the history behind it.
This was mainly built between 1804 and 1816. It was built for the Board of Ordnance to provide a secure inland store for gunpowder, firearms and other military stores. These could be transported by the nearby Grand Junction Canal.
The land has been in the ownership of Weedon Bec Parish Council since 1978 and has been used for recreation purposes at all times. The site is a raised mound of earth situated to the north eastern corner of the recreation ground known as Jubilee Fields, Weedon Bec.
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