Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Litelinge 1166 RBE

• Lidelinz 1182 P 1206(p),1207 Cur

• Lideling' 1205 Cur 1268 Ass

• Lideliz 1205 Cur

• Lidelins 1206 ib

• Liddeling 1268 Ass

• Lydeling 1279 Banco

• Lydelynch' 1280 Ass

• Lydelinch, Lidelinch(e) 1285 FA 1486 Ipm

• Lyddelynche 1304 Banco

• Lydellynch' 1414 Weld2

• Lydlynch(e) 1491 Ipm 1575 Saxton

• Lydlinche 1533 PlR

• Lidlynche 1514 ib

• Lidleing 1709 WRO

• Ledelinze 1244 Ass

• Ledelynch 1316 FA

• Ludeling' 1280 Ass

• Ludelynch(') 1303 Ipm 1406 Digby 1462 IpmR

• Ludenlynche 1428 FF

• Lyndelinche 1318 FF

• Lidlinch Beauboys JasI Hutch3

• Lydinch 1629–31 Salkeld

Etymology

'Ridge by, or bank of, R. Lydden', v. hlinc , RNs infra ; according to M. Gelling, Place -Names in the Landscape (1984) 164, this may be one of a number of names in which hlinc had the sense 'river terrace used as a road, terrace-way'. The estate of 12 hides granted to Sherborne Abbey in Lydene 740–56 (14) Cott (MS Faustina A.ii, f.25), Finberg (p.156), i.e. 'in the valley of R. Lydden', may refer to Lydlinch, cf. also VCHDo 262. The affix Beauboys is manorial; Henry de Beauboys held half a knight's fee in Lydlinch in 1346 (Hutch3 4188), cf. also John Beauboys 1318 FF and the former manor of Hydes infra .