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Lydiard Millicent
Lydiard Millicent shown within Wiltshire |
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| Population | 1,589 (2001 Census)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | SU093859 |
| Unitary authority | Wiltshire Council |
| Ceremonial county | Wiltshire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Swindon |
| Postcode district | SN5 |
| Dialling code | 01793 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | Great Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | North Wiltshire |
| Website | Lydiard Millicent |
| List of places: UK • England • Wiltshire | |
Lydiard Millicent is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of the centre of Swindon.
The village has a primary school[2] and a parish hall and recreation field.[3] The Woodbridge Brook rises near the village.
The first part of the name of the village may be derived from the Old English for ‘gate by the ford’, while Millicent comes from Millicent de Clinton, who owned the manor in the 12th century and was the wife of William de Clinton.[4][5] William fitzOsbern, a close associate of Willam of Normandy, mentioned the parish church of All Saints in a 1060 endowment.[6] Lydiard Manor is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, owned by Geoffrey de Clinton.[6]
The parish registers now kept in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre cover the years 1579-1968 (baptisms), 1580-1992 (marriages), and 1580-1988 (burials).[7]
A history of Lydiard Millicent is to be included in Volume XVIII of the VCH series A History of the County of Wiltshire, approaching publication in 2010.[8]