Haydon is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

north of Dorchester, in the

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district, in the county of

, England. In 2001 the parish had a population of 44. The parish touches Castleton, Caundle Marsh, Folke,

Goathill Goathill is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in England, situated in northern Dorset, a couple of miles east of the town of Sherborne. It lies very close to the county boundary however, and for much of its history (until 1896) ...

, North Wootton and

Purse Caundle Purse Caundle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It lies within the Dorset Council administrative area, about east of Sherborne. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 90. Purse Caundle mano ...

Features

There are three listed buildings in Haydon. Among them is the former St Catherine's Church, which is now in residential use. The small church, in dressed stone with a bell-cote, was built in 1883 to replace an earlier church; it had a medieval

piscina A piscina is a shallow basin placed near the altar of a church, or else in the vestry or sacristy, used for washing the communion vessels. The sacrarium is the drain itself. Anglicans usually refer to the basin, calling it a piscina. For Roman Ca ...

and some 17th-century pews.

History

The name "Haydon" probably means 'Hay-down' though the 1st part may be "hedge-enclosure". The village is one of the possible sources of the surname Haydon. On 25 March 1886 part of Haydon parish were transferred to the parish of Holnest. The transferred area contained 2 houses in 1891.

References

* Villages in Dorset Civil parishes in Dorset West Dorset District {{Dorset-geo-stub