Weedon' with old 'Weedon Bec', which were three distinct villages now merged into one. The settlement patterns of the three villages have been distorted by the presence of the major road, canal, military establishments and railway station and present an unusual example of urban sprawl in an otherwise rural part of England. Experiments with radar in 1935 Arnold Frederic Wilkins demonstrated radar, from radio waves from the Borough Hill transmitter on 26 February 1935. It is often stated as taking place near Weedon Bec, but actually took place in a field just off the A5, towards Litchborough, in the parish of Stowe Nine Churches (Upper Stowe). A memorial to the event is located off the A5 just south of Weedon on the Litchborough Road (NGR SP650557). On 26 February 2010, the event was re-enacted 75 years after the event by radio amateurs from the Coventry Amateur Radio Society and the Northampton Radio Club. A working RADAR set was constructed using the two-metre amateur radio band. As with the original experiment the source signal was transmitted from Borough Hill in Daventry. The four target aircraft were flown by pilots with amateur radio licences. Weedon rail crashes Weedon has been the site of two serious rail crashes in 1915 and 1951 in which a total of 25 people were killed. Churches The parish church, St Peter and St Paul's, is at the south of the village, overlooked from both the Grand Union Canal embankment and the West Coast Main Line viaduct. According to Pevsner, it has a Norman west tower, with the main body 1825 (chancel rebuilt 1863 by Edmund Francis Law). This church is a Grade II* listed building. There is a United Reformed Church (former Congregational Chapel) of 1792: this is also a listed building, Grade II. Richard Bate was named as the vicar of "Wedon Beke", in 1452. Weedon Bec Primary School Weedon Bec Primary school on West Street and is part of Innovate Multi Academy Trust with Badby, Kilsby and Woodford Halse Primary School. Other buildings The Priory in Oak Street is all that remains of a larger house. The Firs on Queen Street is a house dated 1692. At the crossroads there are a number of pubs, cafés and shops. It is now growing as a centre for the antique trade and more specialist shops. Ordnance depot Next to the canal is the former Napoleonic War era