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“LYDLINCH, a parish in the hundred of Sherborne, county Dorset, 3 miles W. of Sturminster-Newton, and 9 S.E. of Sherborne. Blandford is its post town. It is situated on the Lyd, a tributary of the river Stour. The tithes have been commute for a rent-charge of £440, besides £60 from the parishes of West Parley and Horton. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Salisbury, value £458. The church is a small edifice, dedicated to St. Thomas- a-Becket. The charities produce about £80 per annum, and are applied to the repairs of the church, apprenticing of children, and relief of the poor. There is a National school for both sexes. The Marchioness of Thomond is lady of the manor."
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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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- Michael Day provides photographs and bibliography for Lydlinch (St. Thomas à Becket) on his Dorset Churches website
- The Registers of Lydlinch 1559-1812 are available to view online.
- UK Genealogy Archives have a fully searchable transcript of the Marriages at Lydlinch 1837-1919 on their site.
- A description of Lydlinch from the Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5 is available on the UK Genealogy Archives site
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Lydlinch to another place.
- The Dorset On-line Parish Clerks scheme (OPC) transcribe records relating to the county.
The Lydlinch pages contain many useful resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST743136 (Lat/Lon: 50.921108, -2.366867), Lydlinch which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.