Lydd-on-Sea

Lydd-on-Sea
Lydd-on-Sea beach
Lydd-on-Sea Lydd-on-Sea shown within Kent
District	Shepway
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Romney Marsh
Postcode district	TN29
Dialling code	01797
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Folkestone and Hythe
List of places UK England Kent

Coordinates: 50°56′46″N 0°57′50″E / 50.946°N 0.964°E / 50.946; 0.964

Lydd-on-Sea is a modern village, mostly built after World War II, which consists mainly of bungalows built along the Dungeness coastal road south of Greatstone, Kent, England. The Southern Railway opened a railway station here in 1937 but was closed in 1967. Lydd-on-Sea is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Lydd, now several miles distant, which once had access to the sea.

An island in a lake (created by gravel extraction) slightly to the northwest of Lydd-on-Sea is the site of a collection of sound mirrors designed by Dr William Sansome Tucker, to detect the approach of enemy aircraft, in the years before radar had been developed.

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Towns and villages in the Shepway district of Kent, England

	Acrise Arpinge Beachborough Bladbean Bodsham Breach Brenzett Brookland Burmarsh Cheriton Danton Pinch Densole Dymchurch Dungeness Elham Elmsted Etchinghill Folkestone Frogholt Greatstone-on-Sea Hawkinge Hythe Ivychurch Lade Littlestone-on-Sea Lydd Lydd-on-Sea Lyminge Lympne Monks Horton Newchurch Newingreen Newington New Romney Old Romney Paddlesworth Palmarsh Pedlinge Peene Postling Rhodes Minnis Saltwood Sandgate Sandling Sellindge Selsted Snargate Stanford Stelling Minnis St Mary in the Marsh St Mary's Bay Westenhanger West Hythe Wingmore

List of places in Kent

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