Bishops Lydeard

Bishops Lydeard is a village and civil parish located in Somerset, England, bypassed, since 1967, by the A358 road and West Somerset Railway 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Taunton in the district of Taunton Deane. The village has a population of 3,949 persons.

The hamlet of East Lydeard is less than a mile to the east of the village; west of the village is Sandhill Park, an eighteenth-century country home.

Bishops Lydeard is a railway station on the West Somerset Railway.

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