The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Lydiate, entered under the hundred of [West] Derby in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in [West] Derby

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Lydiate is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Lydiate.

Listed Buildings Near Lydiate

Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Lydiate. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

The Scotch Piper Public House - 0.39 km
St Katherines Chapel (Lydiate Abbey) - 0.46 km

Grade II

Meadow View Farmhouse - 0.42 km
Lydiate Hill Bridge - 0.43 km
Lydiate Bridge - 0.43 km
Carriage House at Lydiate House - 0.57 km
Barn to Lydiate House - 0.61 km
Remains of Lydiate Hall - 0.72 km
Church of Our Lady - 0.74 km
Cross Approximately 10 Metres North of Church of Our Lady - 0.76 km
Rose Hill - 1.03 km
Old Gore Farmhouse - 1.14 km
Upper Gore Farmhouse - 1.2 km
Church View Cottage - 1.28 km
Church of St Thomas - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Lydiate

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Lydiate:

Domestic chapel of St Katharine of Alexandria and burial ground - 0.46 km

Lydiate Today

Today Lydiate lies within the administrative area of Sefton, and the settlement recorded a population of 6,192 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Lydiate on Wikipedia .