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Village in Northamptonshire, England

Hellidon is a village and civil parish about 5 mile (8 km) south west of Daventry in Northamptonshire, England. The parish area is about It lies 520 feet (158 m) – 590 feet (180 m) above sea level on the north face of an ironstone ridge, its highest point, 670 feet (204 m) at Windmill Hill, being 0.5 mile (1 km) south east of the village. The Leam and tributaries rise in the parish. The 2011 Census gave a population (with Lower and Upper Catesby) of 256, The long distance Jurassic Way footpath linking Banbury, Oxfordshire, and Stamford, Lincolnshire, passes through. The origin of the name is unclear. "Holy Valley", "Haegla's Valley" and "Unstable valley" have been suggested, with the Old English "dun", meaning hill.

The Domesday Book of 1086 omits Hellidon. in style, and so from late 13th or early 14th century. The west tower survives in its medieval condition, but in 1845–1847 the nave and chancel were heavily restored for the Rev C. S. Holthouse under the Gothic Revival architect William Butterfield. There is also a north transept. St John's is a Grade II* listed building. cast the fourth bell in 1615 and the second, third and tenor in 1635. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the treble bell in 1993. By 1973 it was derelict, but it has since been restored still existed to mark its centenary in 1905. who described himself as a shoemaker in the 1841 Census, but a shopkeeper in 1849. By 1854 he appeared as "Postmaster and Letter Receiver". The Grange, designed by William Butterfield and built for Rev. C. S. Holthouse, has a small core of an older house that Holthouse bought. The enlargement took place in 1850 and again in 1861. In August 1904 a fire in Cox's Lane destroyed three thatched cottages.

The Great Central Main Line from Yorkshire to was built in the 1890s. It passed through the eastern edge of the parish in the Catesby Tunnel, and was completed in 1897. One of the tunnel's five air shafts is in the parish. Goods traffic commenced in 1898 and the nearest passenger station opened in March 1899 at , about 2 mile (3 km) south east of Hellidon. The station was closed in March 1963 and the line in September 1966. From 1917 until 1961 the Park Gate Iron and Steel Company had a quarry about 0.5 mile (1 km) south of the village, on the boundary with Charwelton parish. From there it ran a 1.5 mile (2 km) mineral railway down the Cherwell valley to take ironstone to the main line at Charwelton station. A steam locomotive called Charwelton was built for the line in 1917, worked it until 1942, and is now preserved on the Kent and East Sussex Railway.

George Harry Dury (1916–1996), geographer and hydrologist, was born at Hellidon.

Hellidon has a public house, the Red Lion. In January 2019 it still had a post office.