OS grid reference TL102823 Country England Post town HITCHIN Local time Saturday 10:31 AM Civil parish Shillington UK parliament constituency Mid Bedfordshire | Region East Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district SG5 Dialling code 01582 Ceremonial county Bedfordshire | |
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Higham Gobion is a hamlet in the hundred of Flitt, in the English county of Bedfordshire. The hamlet is now part of the civil parish of Shillington (where the 2011 Census population was included ). It is located between the villages of Shillington and Barton-le-Clay.
Map of Higham Gobion, Shillington, Hitchin, UK
This hilltop hamlet, which consists of a church, farm and small industrial unit and one or two houses, gets the second part of its name from the Gobion family, who resided in this area after the Norman invasion of 1066. In the fields a mile north-east of the church are triangular earthworks and medieval fishponds, all that remain today of a substantial deserted medieval village. Roman pottery has also been found in the field east of the former Rectory. The Anglican church, dedicated to St. Margaret, dates from c.1300, but was much restored during the Victorian period. It contains a monument to Dr. Edmund Castell, who died in 1674 and was a Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. He was a rector at Higham during the last years of his life and lived in the adjoining (and much restored), former rectory. The church is part of the Diocese of St Albans.