Baydon
| Baydon | |
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 St. Nicholas' parish church |
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 Baydon
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| Baydon shown within Wiltshire | |
| Population | 664 (in 2011) |
| OS grid reference | SU281780 |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Marlborough |
| Postcode district | SN8 |
| Dialling code | 01672 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | www.baydon.org |
Baydon is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England about 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Swindon. The eastern boundary of the parish forms part of the county boundary with Berkshire and the village is about 7 miles (11 km) north-west of the West Berkshire market town of Hungerford.
Baydon is close to the Ridgeway, a pre-Roman road. The settlement is on the course of Ermin Way, a Roman Road between Corinium Dobunnorum (Cirencester) and Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester). The earliest reference to Baydon as a place name is in 1196.
Sir Isaac Newton bought an estate in Baydon which he settled on three of his grand-nephews and nieces days before his death in 1727. He later admitted that he had overpaid for it.
Until the 1790s, when it became an independent ecclesiastical parish, Baydon was a chapelry of Ramsbury parish.
The M4 motorway which passes just north of the village was opened on 22 December 1971.
The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas has a Norman nave and two-bay north arcade. The south aisle and northern clerestory are Early English Gothic. The north aisle was rebuilt in 1857-58 by the Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street. The south clerestory is Perpendicular Gothic. The west window, dated 1928, is by Edward Woore and is a memorial to the Rev. Augustus Gibson. The church is Grade II* listed.
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