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Lydd in Kent County England History and GeographyLYDD, a market town and parish, in the liberty of ROMNEY - MARSH, though locally in the hundred of Langport, lathe of SHEPWAY, county of KENT, 36 miles (S.E.) from Maidstone, and 70 (S.E. by E.) from London, containing 1437 inhabitants. This town is situated at the extremity of the county, near the point of land which forms the bay of Dengeness: the inhabitants are principally employed in fishing. The market is on Thursday; and a fair is held on the last Monday in July. It is a corporation by prescription, being a member of Romney, one of the cinque-ports, and is governed by a bailiff, jurats, and commonalty. The bailiff is coroner, and the jurats are justices of the peace, with exclusive jurisidiction, and have power to hold a general court of session, also a court of record for the recovery of debts to any amount. There is a small common gaol and house of correction. The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdietion and patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £55. 12. 1. The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, is a spacious edifice of different dates; the tower is in the later style of English architecture, with crocketed pinnacles: it contains several monuments with brasses. There is a place of worship for Independents. On the point of land called Dengeness, a lighthouse, one hundred and ten feet in height, has been built, in lieu of an ancient one, and partly on the model of the Eddystone lighthouse, under the direction of the late Mr. James Wyatt, architect: this point is defended by a fort, and barracks were erected in the vicinity during the late war with France while under the control of the revolutionary government. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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