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See also:LYDFORD, or LIDFORD , a See also:village, once an important See also:town, in the western See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Devonshire, See also:England, near the western confines of See also:Dartmoor, 27 M. N. of See also:Plymouth by the See also:London & See also:South-Western railway. From its Perpendicular See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Petrock See also:fine views of the Dartmoor tors are seen. The village stands on the small See also:river Lyd, which traverses a deep narrow chasm, crossed by a See also:bridge of single span; and at a little distance a tributary stream forms a cascade in an exquisite glen. See also:Close to the church are slight remains of the See also:castle of Lydford.
Lydford (Lideford) was one of the four Saxon boroughs of See also:Devon, and possessed a See also:mint in the days of !See also:Ethelred the Unready. It first appears in recorded See also:history in 997, when the Danes made a plundering expedition up the Tamar and Tavy as far as " Hlidaforda." In the reign of See also:Edward the See also:Confessor it was the most populous centre in Devonshire after See also:Exeter, but the Domesday Survey relates that See also:forty houses had been laid See also:waste since the See also:Conquest, and the town never recovered its former prosperity; the history from the 13th See also:century centres See also:round the castle, which is first mentioned in 1216, when it was granted to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Briwere, and was shortly afterwards fixed as the See also:prison of the See also:stannaries and the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting-See also:place of the See also:Forest Courts of Dartmoor. A gild at Lideford is mentioned in 118o, and the See also:pipe See also:roll of 1195 records a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant for the re-See also:establishment of the See also:market. In 1238 the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough, which had hitherto been See also:crown See also:demesne, was bestowed by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III. on See also:Richard, See also:earl of See also:Cornwall, who in 1268 obtained a grant of a Wednesday market and a three days' See also:fair at the feast of St Petrock. The borough had a See also:separate See also:coroner and See also:bailiff in 1275, but it was never incorporated by See also:charter, and only once, in 1300, returned members to See also:parliament. Lydford prison is described in 1512 as " one of the most hainous, contagious and detestable places in the See also:realm," and " Lydford See also:Law " was a by-word for injustice. At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:Commonwealth the castle was entirely in ruins, but in the 18th. century it was restored and again used as a prison and as the meeting-place of the See also:manor and borough courts.
End of Article: LYDFORD, or LIDFORD
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