St Mary's Church Weekley
The ancient village of Weekley, three miles north of Kettering, lies just off the A43 main road,
which runs from Stamford in the north to Oxford in the south.
Weekley has a population of 118 plus residents of the old vicarage nursing home
and there are 56 houses in the Parish.
The Post office Closed 3 years ago and was the
countries smallest.
The roads in the Village have no name plates,
with mail being delivered by house number.
Houses are not numbered consecutively.
With its twenty thatched cottages,
Weekley has remained largely unchanged over the last two hundred and fifty years.
To help protect its historic character, it is now designated a Conservation Area.
Jesicas Tea Shop
nice cake.
This was formally the bakers and then a sweet shop
for the last 20 years it has been a tea shop
and home to the countries smallest post office
until 3 years ago.
Weekley village was purchased from St Edmundsbury Abbey by Sir Edward Montagu in 1528 and has remained the property of his ancestors, first the Dukes of Montagu until 1767, when the heiress to the third Duke, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, married Henry, the Third Duke of Buccleuch.
The present Duke of Buccleuch is patron of the Living and with his family, regularly attends the church. (The Living is held in plurality with Geddington, a village one and a half miles to the north.)
The Old Vicarage
Former Alms House and Twice Vicarage and Hospital during the War
