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Civic body

Lydd corporation

Also called Lydd

The corporation of Lydd, a shingle-bound former port, which has twice defended its liberty in court successfully within eighty years.

Ties

  • member of the old charter-port confederation
  • precedence quarrel with New Romney

At the table

It refused a drainage cut in 4577 and took the flooding instead.