Haydon, Somerset

Haydon was built in the nineteenth century to house miners from the local pit in the Somerset Coalfield, which closed in 1973.{{cite web | url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/rural_landscapes_-_chapter_7.pdf |format=PDF| title=Rural Areas — Area 15 Norton Radstock Southern Farmlands | pages=74–76|publisher=Bath and North East Somerset Council|accessdate=10 January 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://www.myquestbathnes.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/kilmersdon-colliery-haydon |title=Kilmersdon Colliery, Haydon |author=Sarah Westell |publisher=My Bath and NE Somerset |date=16 March 2012 |accessdate=15 August 2013 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130815141722/http://www.myquestbathnes.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/kilmersdon-colliery-haydon |archivedate=15 August 2013 |df= }}

The winding wheel from the pit is now displayed outside Radstock Museum.

Haydon forms part of the Frome and East Somerset constituency, which elects a Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.{{cite web |url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/cgi-bin/calcwork.pl?seat=Somerset%20North%20East |title=Somerset North East: New Boundaries Calculation |accessdate=2007-09-19 |format= |work=Electoral Calculus: General Election Prediction |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214160228/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/cgi-bin/calcwork.pl?seat=Somerset%20North%20East |archivedate=2009-02-14 |df= }} It was also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament prior to Britain leaving the European Union in January 2020.

Almost all significant local government functions are carried out by Bath and North East Somerset, a unitary authority.

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Category:Somerset coalfield

Category:Villages in Bath and North East Somerset

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