Bishops Lydeard

Bishops Lydeard
Red stone building with square tower. In the foreground is a graveyard.
Bishops Lydeard is located in Somerset
Bishops Lydeard
Bishops Lydeard
Location within Somerset
Population2,839 civil parish (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceST169298
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTaunton
Postcode districtTA4
Dialling code01823
PoliceAvon and Somerset
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Somerset
51°03′41″N 3°11′14″W / 51.06150°N 3.18720°W / 51.06150; -3.18720

Bishops Lydeard (/ˈlɪdiərd/) is a village and civil parish located in Somerset, England, 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Taunton. The civil parish encompasses the hamlets of East Lydeard and Terhill, and had a population of 2,839 persons as recorded in the 2011 census; this figure, however, includes the village (and now separate parish) of Cotford St Luke.[1]

The village has been bypassed, since 1967, by the A358 road; the West Somerset Railway also runs through the area. The hamlet of East Lydeard is less than a mile to the east of the village; Terhill is about two miles north, while west of the village is Sandhill Park, an eighteenth-century country house.

  1. ^ a b "Statistics for Wards, LSOAs and Parishes — SUMMARY Profiles" (Excel). Somerset Intelligence. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  2. ^ Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Open Data | Bishop's Lydeard
  3. ^ Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 mapping