Lydd-on-Sea
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Lydd-on-Sea | |
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Lydd-on-Sea beach | |
Lydd-on-Sea Location within Kent | |
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Shire county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Romney Marsh |
Postcode district | TN29 |
Dialling code | 01797 |
Police | Kent |
Fire | Kent |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
UK Parliament | |
Lydd-on-Sea is a modern village, mostly built after World War II, which consists mainly of bungalows built along the Dungeness coastal road south of Greatstone, Kent, England. The Southern Railway opened a railway station here in 1937 but was closed in 1967. Lydd-on-Sea is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Lydd, now several miles distant, which once had access to the sea.
An island in a lake (created by gravel extraction) slightly to the northwest of Lydd-on-Sea is the site of a collection of sound mirrors designed by Dr William Sansome Tucker, to detect the approach of enemy aircraft, in the years before radar had been developed.
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Media related to Lydd-on-Sea at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Villages in Kent
- Populated coastal places in Kent
- Beaches of Kent
- Lydd