Lyddington

Lyddington is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish was 397 at the 2001 census, which had fallen to 366 at the 2011 census.[3]

The Bedehouse

Lyddington

The road into Lyddington from the south
Lyddington
Location within Rutland
Area3.32 sq mi (8.6 km2) [1]
Population397 2001 Census[2]
• Density120/sq mi (46/km2)
OS grid referenceSP875969
• London78 miles (126 km) SSE
Unitary authority
Shire county
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townOAKHAM
Postcode districtLE15
Dialling code01572
PoliceLeicestershire
FireLeicestershire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

Lyddington Bede House, owned by English Heritage, is a Grade I listed building[4] incorporating parts of a medieval bishop's palace. In 1547 it was seized on behalf of the king from the Bishops of Lincoln and later passed to Lord Burghley. In 1600 part of the palace was converted into an almshouse and it continued in this use until 1930. The remains of the fishponds of the bishop's palace are nearby.

The parish church of St Andrew is also a Grade I listed building.[5]

There are two public houses, The Marquess of Exeter and The Old White Hart.

Broadband connection

Residents of Lyddington raised £37,000 to offer 200 homes the super-fast broadband that BT could not deliver. The broadband connection was upgraded by Rutland Telecom using a technique called sub-loop unbundling and residents can now achieve broadband speeds of up to 25Mbit/s.[6] This was the first time in the UK that Fibre to the Cabinet technology had been used in a rural village.[7]

gollark: Use sushi belts. Much more efficient.
gollark: It would be silly of me to capitalize anything but the start of words, so you probably only get ~4 bits more difficulty due to that.
gollark: You don't even need that. There are only something like 10000 phones at most.
gollark: Besides, I'm very busy.
gollark: That would defeat the point of hashing it.

References
  1. "A vision of Britain through time". University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
  2. "Rutland Civil Parish Populations" (PDF). Rutland County Council. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
  3. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  4. Historic England. "The Bedehouse (1264528)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  5. Historic England. "Church of Saint Andrew, Church Lane (1236656)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  6. BBC News; Rutland Telecom offers villagers fast broadband
  7. "Ultrafast broadband". Retrieved 9 March 2012.

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