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Baydon is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England about south-east of Swindon. The eastern boundary of the parish forms part of the county boundary with Berkshire and the village is about north-west of the West Berkshire market town of Hungerford. ==History== 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.〔Brewster, 1855, page 397〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baydon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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