Lidsing

Human settlement in England

Boxley

District

Maidstone

Kent

Region

South East

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Faversham and Mid Kent

List of places: UK; England; Kent

51°19′51″N 0°33′48″E / 51.3309°N 0.5634°E / 51.3309; 0.5634

Lidsing is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Boxley, ^[1] in the Maidstone district, in the county of Kent, England. It is near the M2 motorway and south of Gillingham, adjacent to Bredhurst. In 1911 the parish had a population of 98.^[2]

History

Previously a manor/estate called Lydesinge partially in the parishes of Chatham^[3] and Gillingham,^[4] including part of the area that is now Hempstead, the district was the site of a chapel of ease, St. Mary Magdalene's, from the 12th Century. The chapel was demolished in the 1880s.^[5]

Lidsing was formerly a ville in Medway district,^[6] from 1866 Lidsing was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 October 1913 the parish was abolished and merged with Gillingham.^[7]

References

^ http://www.maidstone.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/131616/R1953-Boxley-Parish-Council.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "Population Statistics Lidsing Vle/Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
^ "Parishes: Gillingham | British History Online".
^ "Medway Council Heritage Services catalogues | Details".
^ "LIDSING, ST. MARY MAGDALENE'S CHAPEL RECORDS". Medway Council Heritage Services. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
^ "History of Lidsing, in Medway and Kent". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
^ "Relationships and changes Lidsing Vle/Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 13 June 2023.