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Extract from the Lyddington Travel Guides:
Two miles southeast of Uppingham,
LYDDINGTON
is a sleepy village of honey-hued cottages and pubs lining a meandering main street, set against a backdrop of plump hills and broken broadleaf woodland. Early in the twelfth century, the Bishop of Lincoln, whose lands once extended south as far as the Thames, chose this as the site of a small palace - one of thirteen he erected to accommodate himself and his retinue while away on Episcopal business. Confiscated during the Reformation,
Lyddington Bede House
, on Blue Coat Lane (April-Oct daily 10am-6pm; 2.75; EH), was later converted into almshouses by Lord Burghley and has...
read the whole Lyddington Travel Guides...
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