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Lidsing is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Boxley, [1] in the Maidstone district, in the county of Kent, England. It is near the M2 motorway and south of Gillingham, adjacent to Bredhurst. In 1911 the parish had a population of 98.[2]
Lidsing | |
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![]() The Harrow Pub, Lidsing | |
Location within Kent | |
Civil parish | |
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Shire county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Gillingham |
Postcode district | ME7 |
Police | Kent |
Fire | Kent |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
UK Parliament | |
Previously a manor/estate called Lydesinge partially in the parishes of Chatham[3] and Gillingham,[4] including part of the area that is now Hempstead, the district was the site of a chapel of ease, St. Mary Magdalene's, from the 12th Century. The chapel was demolished in the 1880s.[5]
Lidsing was formerly a ville in Medway district,[6] from 1866 Lidsing was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 October 1913 the parish was abolished and merged with Gillingham.[7]