Kent
Shepway District
Lydd

Lydd

Lydd is a town and electoral ward in , England, lying on . It is one of the larger settlements on the marsh, and the most southerly town in Kent.
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  • Type: Town with 3,330 residents
  • Description: town in Kent, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Lydd, Kent”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lydd Airport and RAF Denge.

Aerodrome
Photo: LyddGC, CC BY-SA 4.0.
London Ashford Airport is an operational general aviation and minor commercial airport located 1 NM east of the town of Lydd and 12 NM south of in the district of Folkestone and Hythe, in , .

Heritage site
Photo: Paul Russon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Air Force Denge or more simply is a former Royal Air Force site near Dungeness, in , England. It is best known for the early experimental acoustic mirrors which remain there. is situated 2 miles east of Lydd.

School
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated 2½ miles northeast of Lydd.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lade and Old Romney.

Suburb
Photo: Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lydd is a town and electoral ward in , England, lying on . It is one of the larger settlements on the marsh, and the most southerly town in Kent. is situated 2½ miles east of Lydd.

Hamlet
Photo: Ian Dunster, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of , England. The village, as its name suggests, is the original site of the settlement, and is situated two miles inland from . is situated 2½ miles north of Lydd.

Hamlet
Photo: Paul Russon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Greatstone is a village on the coast of in , England. It is east of the town of and split between the civil parishes of New Romney and Lydd. is situated 2½ miles northeast of Lydd.

Lydd

Latitude
50.95097° or 50° 57′ 4″ north
Longitude
0.90654° or 0° 54′ 24″ east
Population
3,330
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
IATA airport code
LYX
United Nations Location Code
GB LYX
Open location code
9F22XW24+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26924996
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2643327
Wiki­data ID
Q1639689
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Lydd” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Lydd”
  • Basque: “Lydd”
  • Bengali: “লীড”
  • Cebuano: “Lydd”
  • Chinese: “林德”
  • Chinese: “里德”
  • Dutch: “Lydd”
  • Finnish: “Lydd”
  • French: “Lydd”
  • German: “Lydd”
  • Gujarati: “લીડ”
  • Hungarian: “Lydd”
  • Irish: “Lydd”
  • Italian: “Lydd”
  • Japanese: “リッド”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಡ್”
  • Korean: “리스”
  • Ladin: “Lydd”
  • Latvian: “Lida (Anglija)”
  • Latvian: “Lida”
  • Lithuanian: “Lidas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lydd”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lydd”
  • Persian: “لید، کنت”
  • Polish: “Lydd”
  • Portuguese: “Lydd”
  • Romanian: “Lydd”
  • Russian: “Лид”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لید، کنت”
  • Spanish: “Lydd”
  • Swedish: “Lydd”
  • Tamil: “லிட்”
  • Telugu: “లేడ్”
  • Turkish: “Lydd”
  • Urdu: “لید”
  • Urdu: “لیڈ”
  • Volapük: “Lydd”
  • Welsh: “Lydd”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lydd”. Photo: Simon Carey, CC BY-SA 2.0.