Haydon
Haydon is a locality in West Dorset District, England. Haydon is situated nearby to the village Alweston, as well as near Goathill.Places of Interest
Highlights include Sherborne Castle and Sherborne Old Castle.
Sherborne Castle
Castle
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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 railway station
Railway station
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Sherborne railway station serves the town of Sherborne in Dorset, England. It is situated on the West of England Main Line, 118 miles 4 chains down the line from London Waterloo and is currently operated by South Western Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sherborne and Longburton.
Sherborne
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Sherborne is a small town in England. A market town and civil parish in northwest Dorset, it's sited on the River Yeo on the edge of the Blackmore Vale.
Longburton
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longburton or Long Burton is a village in Dorset, England, three miles south of Sherborne. It is sited on a narrow outcrop of Cornbrash limestone, at the western end of Blackmore Vale. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 524. Longburton is situated 2 miles southwest of Haydon.
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.
Haydon
- Type: Locality
- Location: West Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.9388° or 50° 56′ 20″ northLongitude
-2.4682° or 2° 28′ 6″ westElevation
318 feet (97 metres)Open location code
9C2VWGQJ+GPGeoNames ID
7293422
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