LIDLINGTON, or LITLINGTON, a parish in the
hundred of REDBORNESTOKE, county of BEDFORD, 85
miles (W. byN.) from Ampthill, containing 739 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in
the king's books at £11, endowed with £600 royal
bounty, and £ 1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Duke of Bedford. The church, dedicated
to All Saints, contains an ancient tomb, with a
brass effigy in armour of one of the Goldingtons, who
possessed the manor of Goldington, in this parish, in
the fifteenth century. There is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists.