Facilities
The Grand Union Canal runs nearby east of the village.
In 1979 it featured on the Blue Peter television series when presenter Simon Groom visited a breeder of St Bernards in the village.
The noted Victorian botanist George Claridge Druce, later Mayor of Oxford, went to school in the village.
It has three football clubs, Yardley Gobion FC and Yardley Gobion Reserves which play on Saturdays and Yardley Eagles plays in Thursday's six-a-side league, coming 2nd in the 2008/9 season and runners up in the league cup.
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Famous quotes containing the word facilities:
“I have always found that when men have exhausted their own resources, they fall back on “the intentions of the Creator.” But their platitudes have ceased to have any influence with those women who believe they have the same facilities for communication with the Divine mind as men have.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)