Lyddington
Major Settlement in the Parish of Lyddington
Historical Forms
- Lidentone 1086 DB
- Lidentonam 1126,1154–9 RegAnt
- Lydenton' 1286 Ass 1286 QW
- Lydinton(e), Lidinton(e), Lidynton(e) 1167,1187,1188 P 1286 Ass 1294 RTemple 1354 Pat
- Lidintona(m) 1215 RegAnt 1221 RHug
- Lidintun' 1215 RegAnt
- Lydington(e), Lidington(e), Lidyngton(e) 1190 RegAnt 12 Peake 1215 RegAnt 1263 Ass 1269 For 1547 Chap
- Lidingtun' 1218 For
- Ledingtona 1163 RegAnt
- Ledyngton' 1286 PleaR 1324 Cl 1450 Wyg
- Lyddington', Liddington', Liddyngton' 1444 Rut 1506,1509 Conant 1555 et passim
Etymology
Possibly 'the farm or estate called after or associated with a man named Hlȳda', v. -ingtūn , cf. Lidham Sx 509. This important estate, later to belong to the Bishops of Lincoln, is on the edge of the attractive soils of the Northampton Sands formation. DEPN s. n. Liddington prefers a stream-name Hlȳde 'the loud one' as the first element, compounded simply with tūn . There is a small tributary of R. Welland here which drops some 200 ft in two miles.