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LYDGATE. 7 a 2 LYHE RElilS. an Enclosure Act. in 1827 for land and a money pay- ment. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Bath and Wells, val. 350. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a stone edifice of the present century. It is in the Gothic style of architecture, with a tower and a memorial window. The register commences in 1711. The charities, including 5 school endowment, produce about 14 per annum. The Wesleyans have a chapel, and there is a National school. Mrs. Colston is lady of the manor. Fairs are held on Holy Thursday and the 12th August for the sale of cattle. LYDGATE, a ehplry. in the par. of Rochdale, wap. of Agbrigg, West Riding co. York, in the vicinity of the town of Rochdale, and 3 miles N.E. of Oldham. The chapelry comprises a mountainous district. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the cotton spinning mills. The living is a perpet. cur.* in the dioc. of Manchester, val. 150, in the patron, of the vicar of the parish. The church, dedicated to St. Anne, is a neat structure, with a campanile turret. LYDGATE, a vil. in the tnshp. of Nether Hallam, West Riding co. York, 1 mile W. of Sheffield. LYDHAM, a par. partly in the hund. and co. of Montgomery, but chiefly in the hund. of Purslow, co. Salop, 2 miles N.E. of Bishop's Castle, its post town, and 8 S.W. of Church Stretton. The main road from Bishop's Castle to Shrewsbury passes through the village. The small river Camlet rises in the par., which includes the tnshp. of Aston. A portion of the people are Welsh. The living is a rect. in the dioc. of Hereford, val. 463. The church is an ancient stone edifice, dedi- cated to the Holy Trinity, and has an antique font. The Rev. A. Oakeley is lord of the manor. Oakeley House is the principal residence. LYDIATE, a tnshp. in the par. of Halsall, hund. of West 'Derby, co. palatine of Lancaster, 4 miles S.W. of Ormskirk, its post town. The Leeds and Liverpool canal passes through the township. The village, which is con- siderable, is situated near Halsall Moss, which is famed for its "lit-turf," used in the manufacture of candles. The living is a perpet. cur.* in the dioc. of Chester, val. 73, in the gift of the rector of the parish. The church is a Gothic structure, with a square tower surmounted by pinnacles. The Roman Catholics have a church, built of stone, with a tower and spire, and window of stained glass. There is a Roman Catholic school. Here are extensive ruins of Lydiate Abbey, which at the time of the Dissolution was in an unfinished state. Lydiate Hall is now a farm. LYDLEY-HAYES, a tnshp. in the par. of Cardington, co. Salop, 4 miles N.E. of Church Stretton. LYDLINCH, a par. in the hund. of Sherborne, co. Dorset, 3 miles W. of Sturminster-Newton, and 9 S.E. of Sherborne. Blandford is its post town. It is situ- ated on the Lyd, a tributary of the river Stour. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of 440, besides 60 from the parishes of West Parley and Horton. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Salisbury, val. 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. LYD KEY. See LIDNEY, co. Gloucester. LYDOCH, a loch in the Muir of Rannoch, on the borders of cos. Perth and Argyle, Scotland. It is about 12 miles in length by 1 mile broad, and is connected with lochs Ericht and Rannoch by the river Gauer. LYE, a tnshp. and ehplry. united with Lye Waste, in the par. of old Swinford, lower div. of the bund, of Halfshire, co. Worcester, 2 miles E. of Stourbridge, its post town. It is a station on the Cradley and Stour- bridge branch of the Great Western railway. This place has risen into importance within the last few years. Previously it was, as the suffix to its name implies, a dreary waste, and there is still want of regu- larity in its appearance. The road from Stourbridge to Birmingham passes through the village. The people - are principally employed in the works for the manufac* ture of anvils, nails, vices, and other iron goods, and in the collieries. The living is a perpet. cur. * in the dioc. of Worcester, val. 184. The church, dedicated to our Saviour, has been recently enlarged. The Independents, Wesleyans, Presbyterians, and Primitive Methodists, have chapels. There are National and infant schools. LYE, NETHER and OVER, tnshps. in the par. of Aymestry, co. Hereford, 7 miles N.W. of Lcominster, and 5 N.E. of Presteign. The river Lug flows through the place. LYFORD, a ehplry. in the par. of West Hnnney, hund. of Ock, co. Berks, 4 miles N. of Wantage, it* post town, and 8 S.W. of Abingdon. It is situated on the river Ock, and the Wantage Road station on the Great Western line of railway is nearly 3 miles S.E. of the village. The surface is flat, and the land fertile, being in general a deep rich black earth. The tithes were commuted for land in 1801 under an Enclosure Act. The living is a perpet. cur.* in the dioc. of Oxford, in the patron, of Worcester College, Oxford. Almshousea for fourteen poor persons of this parish were founded in 1603 by Oliver Ayshcombe. LYLESLAND, a district on the S. side of Paisley, Scotland. It is chiefly inhabited by weavers, and is within the parliamentary boundaries of the burgh of Paisley. LYME-HANDLEY, a tnshp. in the par. of Prest- bury, hund. of Macclesfield, co. palatine of Chester, 6 miles N.E. of Macclesfield. Stockport is its post town. It is situated in the vicinity of the Peake Forest canal, and commands a view of the country round Disley, with the Mersey and Derbyshire hills in the distance. This manor belongs to the Legh family, whose ancestor, Sir Perkin, served with the Black Prince at the battle of Cressy. Lyme Hall, the family seat, is a quadrangular building of white grit-stone, partly Elizabethan, and partly by Leoni. It contains some stained windows, the carved bedstead of the Black Prince, and a picture gallery with a portrait of the Prince. The park is very extensive, and abounds with red deer. In the neighbourhood are a large number of wild cattle. LYME REGIS, a par., seaport, market town, muni- cipal and parliamentary borough, and fashionable watering-place, in the lib. of Lodurs and Bothcnhamp- ton, co. Dorset, 6 miles S.E. of Axininster, 8 W. of Bridport, and 23 W. of Dorchester. It has access by the Bridport branch of the Bristol and Exeter rail- way, and has a line to Axminster. This place derives its name from the river Lyme, at the mou! which it is built, -lying between two hills. It was n in the Saxon times for its salt works, and in the reit Edward I. received the privileges of a borough an( port, being given by that monarch as part of the d' of his sister Margaret, Queen of Scotland. It furnisha to the fleet of Edward III. before Calais 4 ships and 62 men, but was inundated by the sea in the reign of Richard II., and subsequently ravaged by the French, so that Camden describes it in the reign of James I. as little more than a fishing village. The Armada was first engaged off here in 1588, and the English fleet was worsted by the Dutch in 1672. During the civil war ( " Charles I. it was defended for two months in 1644, 1 Admiral Blake and Colonel Cceley, against Royalists under Prince Maurice. The unfortui Duke of Monmouth landed here in 10S5, and set up his standard. The inn in which he slept has only u. been pulled down, and the head of his I < is still in the possession of a resident. After his defeat twelve persons were executed in the (< by Judge Jefl'reys. After a long period of d the prosperity of the town began to revive, and within the last century it has attained a flourisl condition, having become a fashionable watering-plf though of late years the population has again some* declined. It has many of the advantages of a ha ' by means of an artificial breakwater called the from the Cobble pebbles which it was first made of, 1