LYDHAM, a parish partly in the hundred and
county of MONTGOMERY, but chiefly in the hundred
of PURSLOW, county of SALOP, 2 miles (N. N. E.) from
Bishop's Castle, containing 225 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and
diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £ 10,
and in the patronage of the Rev. Herbert Oakeley. The
church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The river
Camlet takes its rise in this parish.