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In England:- Weedon, BuckinghamshireWeedon, BuckinghamshireWeedon is a village and civil parish north of Aylesbury and south of Hardwick in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.The toponym is derived from the Old English for "hill with a heathen temple". In records dated 1066 the village was recorded as Weodune.Weedon has a Methodist...
- Weedon, Newcastle-under-LymeNewcastle-under-LymeNewcastle-under-Lyme is a market town in Staffordshire, England, and is the principal town of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It is part of The Potteries Urban Area and North Staffordshire. In the 2001 census the town had a population of 73,944...
, Staffordshire - Weedon BecWeedon BecWeedon Bec , usually just called "Weedon", is a large village and parish in the district of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England. It lies close to the source of the River Nene.-Geography:...
, Northamptonshire - Weedon LoisWeedon LoisWeedon Lois is a village in the English county of Northamptonshire due west of the town of Towcester.It is part of South Northamptonshire district and forms a civil parish with neighbouring Weston....
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In Canada:
- Weedon, QuebecWeedon, QuebecWeedon is a municipality of 2,600 people in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada....
In the United States:
- Weedon Island, St. Petersburg, Florida
People
- Basil WeedonBasil WeedonProfessor Basil Charles Leicester Weedon CBE, FRS was an organic chemist and university administrator. Using magnetic resonance spectroscopy, he was the first to map the structures of carotenoid pigments, including astaxanthin, rubixanthin and canthaxanthin.-Personal life:Weedon was born in...
- Bert WeedonBert WeedonHerbert Maurice William 'Bert' Weedon OBE is an English guitarist and composer whose style of guitar playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Burges Road, East Ham, Essex, now Greater London....
, guitarist - George WeedonGeorge WeedonGeorge Weedon was an American soldier during the Revolutionary War from Fredericksburg, Virginia.He served as a Brigadier General in the Continental Army and later in the Virginia militia....
, American soldier during the Revolutionary War - George G. WeedonGeorge Weedon (gymnast)George G. Weedon is a British gymnast who competed at two Summer Olympic Games. In 1948 in London he participated in the Men's Individual All-Around, Team All-Around, Floor Exercise, Horse Vault, Parallel Bars, Horizontal Bar, Rings, and Pommelled Horse, placing 12th out of 16 nations in the team...
, British Olympic gymnast - Harry WeedonHarry WeedonHarold William "Harry" Weedon was an English architect. Although he designed a large number of buildings during a long career, he is best known for his role overseeing the Art Deco designs of the Odeon Cinemas for Oscar Deutsch in the 1930s...
, architect - Margaret WeedonMargaret WeedonMargaret Kate Weedon was a British archer who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.She was born in Lewes....
- Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of WeedonRobert Alexander, Baron Alexander of WeedonRobert Scott Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon, QC, FRSA was a British barrister, banker and Conservative politician....