Lyddington

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Lyddington
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The road into Lyddington from the south
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Lyddington
Location within Rutland
Area3.32 sq mi (8.6 km2)  [1]
Population397  2001 Census [2]
•  Density 120/sq mi (46/km2)
OS grid reference SP875969
•  London 78 miles (126 km) SSE
Unitary authority
Shire county
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town OAKHAM
Postcode district LE15
Dialling code 01572
Police Leicestershire
Fire Leicestershire
Ambulance East Midlands
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52°33′47″N0°42′32″W / 52.563°N 0.709°W / 52.563; -0.709

Lyddington is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish was 397 at the 2001 census, and had fallen to 366 at the 2011 census. [3]

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The village's name origin is uncertain. Perhaps, 'farm/settlement of Hlyda' or 'farm/settlement with a noisy stream'. [4]

The Bedehouse Lyddington Bede House.jpeg
The Bedehouse

Lyddington Bede House, owned by English Heritage, is a Grade I listed building [5] incorporating parts of a medieval bishop's palace. In 1547 it was seized on behalf of the king from the Bishops of Lincoln and later passed to Lord Burghley. In 1600 part of the palace was converted into an almshouse and it continued in this use until 1930. The remains of the fishponds of the bishop's palace are nearby.

St Andrew's Church, Lyddington St Andrews Church and Lyddington Bede House, Lyddington - geograph.org.uk - 163796.jpg
St Andrew's Church, Lyddington

St Andrew's Church is also Grade I listed. [6]

There are two public houses, The Marquess of Exeter and The Old White Hart.

Broadband connection

Residents of Lyddington raised £37,000 to offer 200 homes the super-fast broadband that BT could not deliver. The broadband connection was upgraded in 2010 by Rutland Telecom [ dead link ] using a technique called sub-loop unbundling and residents had broadband speeds of up to 25 Mbit/s. [7] This was the first time in the UK that Fibre to the Cabinet technology was used in a rural village. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "A vision of Britain through time". University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
  2. ↑ "Rutland Civil Parish Populations" (PDF). Rutland County Council. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
  3. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  4. ↑ http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Rutland/Lyddington%
  5. ↑ Historic England. "The Bedehouse (1264528)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Church of Saint Andrew, Church Lane (1236656)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  7. ↑ BBC News; Rutland Telecom offers villagers fast broadband
  8. ↑ "Ultrafast broadband" . Retrieved 9 March 2012.

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