Hellidon
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Hellidon is a village and civil parish in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England. It has a population of 180 (2001 census).
The village is located about five miles south-west of Daventry, south of the A425 road. It is on the watershed and three major rivers the Leam (to the Bristol Channel), the Cherwell (to the Thames Estuary), and the Nene (to The Wash) all have their sources nearby.
Hellidon used to be the centre of an ironstone quarrying industry until the 1950s and an industrial railway operated in the area, which conveyed ironstone to the Great Central line at Charwelton. There are now several vineyards in the Hellidon area; one of those is the windmill vineyard which accommodates the white tower mill of Hellidon with a silver cap.
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