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Lyddington is a village in the county of 
Lyddington Bede House, owned by English Heritage, is a Grade I listed building incorporating parts of a medieval bishop's palace. In 1547 it was seized on behalf of the king from the Bishops of Lincoln and later passed to Lord Burghley. In 1600 part of the palace was converted into an 
Rutland Telecom
using a technique called
Rutland
Rutland () is a ceremonial county and unitary authority in the East Midlands, England. The county is bounded to the west and north by Leicestershire, to the northeast by Lincolnshire and the southeast by Northamptonshire.
Its greatest len ...
in the East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. It comprises the eastern half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It consists of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Li ...
of England. The population of the civil parish was 397 at the 2001 census, and had fallen to 366 at the 2011 census.
The village's name origin is uncertain. Perhaps, 'farm/settlement of Hlyda' or 'farm/settlement with a noisy stream'.
Lyddington Bede House, owned by English Heritage, is a Grade I listed building incorporating parts of a medieval bishop's palace. In 1547 it was seized on behalf of the king from the Bishops of Lincoln and later passed to Lord Burghley. In 1600 part of the palace was converted into an almshouse
An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) was charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the medieval era. They were often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain ...
and it continued in this use until 1930. The remains of the fishponds of the bishop's palace are nearby.
St Andrew's Church
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is also Grade I listed.
There are two public houses, The Marquess of Exeter and The Old White Hart.
Broadband connection
Residents of Lyddington raised £37,000 to offer 200 homes the super-fast broadband that BT could not deliver. The broadband connection was upgraded bRutland Telecom
using a technique called
sub-loop unbundling
In the telephony business, sub-loop unbundling (SLU) is a type of unbundled access whereby a sub-section of the local loop is unbundled. In practice this often means the competitor placing a small street cabinet with a DSLAM, next to a telco local ...
and residents can now achieve broadband speeds of up to 25Mbit/s.
This was the first time in the UK that Fibre to the Cabinet technology had been used in a rural village.
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Villages in Rutland Civil parishes in Rutland {{Rutland-geo-stub