Ballidon
Village in Derbyshire, England
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Ballidon is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, on the edge of the Peak District National Park.[1][2] According to the 2001 census it had a population of 79. The population at the 2011 Census remained less than 100. Details are maintained in the civil Parish of Aldwark, Derbyshire.
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| Ballidon | |
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 Ballidon parish highlighted within Derbyshire | |
| Population | 79 (2001 Census) |
| OS grid reference | SK203545 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ASHBOURNE |
| Postcode district | DE6 |
| Police | Derbyshire |
| Fire | Derbyshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
Ballidon was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086[3] and was a much larger village than seen today. That area now devastated by the Tilcon Quarry was a deep valley and the site of an ambush of troops of the Jacobite rising of 1745; skulls and weaponry were recovered on the west bank of the stream.
Ballidon sits at the foot of Ballidon Dale, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).[4] At the head of the dale is Roystone Grange where there are remains of monuments from the Bronze Age, a Romano-British settlement and a medieval monastic grange.[5][6][7]
The Limestone Way long-distance footpath passes just south of the hamlet of Ballidon.[8]
