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King Lud's Entrenchments

Other OS name in the Parish of Croxton Kerrial

Historical Forms

  • King Lud's Intrenchments 1795 Nichols

Etymology

, King Lud 's Intrenchments 1795 Nichols ; an undated linear earthwork of rampart and ditch forming part of the parish boundary on Saltby Heath . Lud was a legendary king of Britain who appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Regum Britanniae as the eldest brother of Cassivelaunus . He succeeded Heli , his father , as king of Britain , replanned and rebuilt its capital Trinovantum and renamed it Kaerlud , later Kaerlundein , eventually London . Supposedly , he was in time buried at a gateway of his capital , now remembered as Ludgate ; but v. Ludforth in Branston f. ns . ( b ) .