Ballidon

Also known as Ballidon, Derbyshire

Ballidon is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, on the edge of the Peak District National Park. 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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Place details

Locality: Derbyshire Dales
Region: England
Country: United Kingdom
Population: 0

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UK place.country: England
UK place.static_image_name: Ballidon Church, Derbyshire (geograph 112344).jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Ballidon Church
UK place.static_image_2_name: Derbyshire UK parish map highlighting Ballidon.svg
UK place.static_image_2_caption: Ballidon parish highlighted within Derbyshire
UK place.official_name: Ballidon
UK place.population: 79
UK place.population_ref: (2001 Census)
UK place.shire_district: Derbyshire Dales
UK place.shire_county: Derbyshire
UK place.region: East Midlands
UK place.post_town: ASHBOURNE
UK place.postcode_district: DE6
UK place.postcode_area: DE
UK place.os_grid_reference: SK203545

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Population: 185
Image: Ballidon Church, Derbyshire (geograph 112344).jpg

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Commons category: Ballidon
OS grid reference: SK203545
postal code: DE6
P8168: Dženan Radončić

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Ballidon was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 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.