LYDDEN, a parish in the hundred of BEWSBOROUGH,
lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, 4
miles (N.W.) from Dovor, containing 149 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books
at £6. 6., endowed with £640 private benefaction,
£200 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is
principally in the early style of English architecture.
There are some traces of an ancient monastery in the
farm-house called Swenton, in this parish, yet discoverable.