Lydlinch
Parish church of St Thomas a Becket
Lydlinch  Lydlinch shown within Dorset
Population	431
OS grid reference	ST743135
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
List of places: UK • England • Dorset

Lydlinch is a village in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies within the North Dorset administrative district of the county, three miles west of the town of Sturminster Newton. It is sited on Oxford clay^[1] close to the small River Lydden in the Blackmore Vale. In the 2001 Census the village had a population of 431.

19th-century Dorset dialect poet William Barnes was born in the hamlet of Bagber^[2] which lies about half a mile to the east. 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.

ReferencesEdit

The Buildings of England by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner. Page 258. Published by Penguin Books 1972. Reprint 1975. ISBN 0 14 071044 2

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Coordinates: 50°55′12″N 2°21′58″W / 50.92, -2.366