LYDEARD (ST-LAWRENCE), a parish in the hundred ofTAUNTON-and-TAUNTON-DEAN, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (N.E.) from Wiveliscombe, containing 618 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £22. 6. 8., and in the patronage of Robert Harvey, Esq.