Haydon
Haydon is a village in Goathill, West Dorset District, England. Haydon is situated nearby to the locality Deadman`s Covert, as well as near the village Goathill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sherborne Castle and Parish Church of St Peter.
Sherborne Castle
Castle
Photo: JackPeasePhotography, CC BY 2.0.
Sherborne Castle is a 16th-century Tudor mansion southeast of Sherborne in Dorset, England, within the parish of Castleton. Originally built by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sherborne Lodge, and extended in the 1620s, it stands in a 1,200-acre park which formed a small part of the 15,000-acre Digby estate.
Sherborne Abbey
Church
Photo: Isis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Sherborne in the English county of Dorset. It was formerly a Saxon Catholic cathedral and a Benedictine abbey church, before becoming a Church of England parish church in 1539 during the dissolution of the monasteries. Sherborne Abbey is situated 2 miles west of Haydon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alweston and Castleton.
Alweston
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alweston is a village in Dorset, England, situated roughly 3.5 miles southeast of Sherborne. Historically it belonged to the Parish of Folke, in the Hundred of Sherborne.
Castleton
Village
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castleton is a civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The parish virtually encircles the town of Sherborne, and contains within its boundary both Sherborne Castle and Sherborne Old Castle. Castleton is situated 1½ miles west of Haydon.
Folke
Village
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately 3.5 miles south-east of Sherborne. The parish has an area of 2,120 acres and is made of the villages of Folke and Alweston, and the hamlet of Bishops Down. Folke is situated 1½ miles southwest of Haydon.
Haydon
- Type: Village
- Category: locality
- Location: Goathill, West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.94113° or 50° 56′ 28″ northLongitude
-2.4701° or 2° 28′ 12″ westElevation
371 feet (113 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB AYNOpen location code
9C2VWGRH+FXOpenStreetMap ID
node 435166283OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2647264
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