Lydlinch
| Lydlinch | |
 Parish church of St Thomas a Becket |
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  Lydlinch |
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| Population | 437 [1] |
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| OS grid reference | ST743135 |
| Civil parish | Lydlinch |
| District | North Dorset |
| Shire county | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
Coordinates: 50°55′13″N 2°21′59″W / 50.9204°N 2.3665°W
Lydlinch is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies within the North Dorset administrative district, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the town of Sturminster Newton. It is sited on Oxford clay[2] close to the small River Lydden in the Blackmore Vale. In the 2011 census the civil parish—which includes the settlement of King's Stag to the south—had 192 households and a population of 437.[1]
19th-century Dorset dialect poet William Barnes was born in the hamlet of Bagber[3] which lies about half a mile to the east within Sturminster newton civil parish. He wrote about the five bells which hang on the tower of Lydlinch parish church:
- "Vor Lydlinch bells be good vor sound, And liked by all the neighbours round."
The church, dedicated to St. Thomas à Becket, is perpendicular Gothic and has a 13th-century tower, a twelfth-century font and many stained glass windows.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Area: Lydlinch (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ↑ Wightman, p17
- ↑ Wightman, p141
References
- The Buildings of England by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner. Page 258. Published by Penguin Books 1972. Reprint 1975. ISBN 0-14-071044-2
- Ralph Wightman (1983). Portrait of Dorset. Robert Hale Ltd. ISBN 0 7090 0844 9.
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