Weedon Bec

12°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 21° / 11° · 71% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:28

12h 56m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Northampton Spring Park, United Kingdom

18 reported · July 2026▲ 6% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour8
• Shoplifting3
• Violence & sexual offences3
• Other theft2

Neighbourhood team: Weedon · Northamptonshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

751 reported road collisions (2024)

133 killed or seriously injured · 990 casualties · 17.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

40 food businesses within 2 miles

• 31 rated 4–5 ★ (30 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Long Buckby (7.4 km)
• 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£292,754 average▲ 2.5% YoY

Across West Northamptonshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,078 average monthly rent▲ 3.2% YoY

• 1 bed £748
• 2 bed £950
• 3 bed £1,160

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

7.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.8 times median annual pay (8.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 159.9p · Esso (5.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.9p · Esso (5.9 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

12 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Heart of England (0.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

425,727 residents in West Northamptonshire · 309/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 64%
• 65+: 17%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

£2,487 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (25% of 185,940)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

208 schools · 69,080 pupils

148 primary · 17 secondary · 43 other

Ofsted: 88 of 95 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (93%)

187inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · West Northamptonshire

447 CQC-registered services

• Care homes107
• GP practices57
• Dentists64
• Homecare agencies170
• Hospitals & hospices11

CQC ratings: 79% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 9 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · West Northamptonshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 61 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

449 applications decided

90.4% granted · 406 granted, 43 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Stuart Andrew

Conservative

Daventry

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 8
• Con 17
• LD 7
• Ref 39
• Oth 5

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens4
• Restaurants & cafés5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

21,595 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£728 median full-time weekly pay

3.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,629 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

64% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 61,687 certificates

10.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

74% low-carbon electricity

Wind 46% · Gas 26% · Biomass 19% · Nuclear 6%

127 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.8 yrs women · 80.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 61.9 women · 61.6 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Daventry:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership423 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office412 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases402 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s352 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test345 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Weedon Bec · 0.5 km

  Weedon Bec, usually just Weedon, is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. It is close to the source of the River Nene. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 2,706.

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  Army School of Equitation · 0.6 km

  The Army School of Equitation was a British Army school at Weedon in Northamptonshire, created in 1922 and closed in 1940. In the worlds of cavalry and horses it was commonly called simply Weedon.

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  Weedon railway station · 0.8 km

  Weedon railway station was located to the north of Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire, England on the West Coast Main Line. It was a junction station, being the starting point of the Weedon to Leamington Spa branch line,…

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  Dodford, Northamptonshire · 1.1 km

  Dodford is a village in West Northamptonshire, England. Prior to local government changes in 2021 it was within the Weedon Ward of Daventry District. The village is just north of the A45 road 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) west…

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  Flore House, Northamptonshire · 1.7 km

  Flore House in Flore, Northamptonshire, is a country house of historical significance and is Grade II listed on the English Heritage Register. It was built in 1608 for the Enyon family and was the residence of notable…

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  Church Stowe · 1.9 km

  Church Stowe is a village in West Northamptonshire in England. It is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Stowe Nine Churches.

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