Lydlinch
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Lydlinch is a village and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale in north Dorset, England, about three miles (five kilometres) west of Sturminster Newton. The village is sited on Oxford clay[1] close to the small River Lydden. The parish – which includes the village of King's Stag to the south and the hamlet of Stock Gaylard to the west – is bounded by the Lydden to the east and its tributary, the Caundle Brook, to the north.
Lydlinch | |
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Parish Church of St Thomas Becket | |
Location within Dorset | |
Population | 437 (2011) |
OS grid reference | ST743135 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | STURMINSTER NEWTON |
Postcode district | DT10 |
Dialling code | 01963 |
Police | Dorset |
Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
50.9204°N 2.3665°W / 50.9204; -2.3665 |
The 2011 census recorded the parish as having 199 dwellings,[2] 192 households and a population of 437.[3]
At King's Stag is the King's Stag Memorial Chapel which was built in 1914 at the expense of the Right Rev. Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs, the Bishop of Worcester, in memory of his wife, Lady Barbara Yeatman-Biggs, who died in 1909.[4]