Place:


Lydden  Kent

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lydden like this:

LYDDEN, a village and a parish in Dover district, Kent. The village stands on Watling-street, adjacent to the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, in a valley between high chalk hills, 2 miles NW of Ewell r. station, and 5 NW of Dover. The parish comprises 1,422 acres; and its Post town is Dover. ...


Real property, £1,453. Pop., 198. Houses, 40. The property is diVided among a few. Considerable springs rise here; and streamlets, flowing from them, have a subterranean course and fall into the sea, under the name of Lydden spouts, from the cliffs at Hougham, about 4 miles distant. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £130.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church was rebuilt in 1833; and consists of nave and chancel, with a tower.

Lydden through time

Lydden is now part of Dover district. Click here for graphs and data of how Dover has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Lydden itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Lydden, in Dover and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6267

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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