Lydbury North
Lydbury North is a town and a geographically big civil parish in south Shropshire, England.The populace of the Civil Parish at the 2011 census was 695. The church is in your area called Lydbury and there is no settlement called Lydbury South. It is located at grid recommendation SO352859. It is positioned in the south west corner of the county, close to the towns of Clun and Bishop's Castle. The B4385 road runs through the town, as does the Jack Mytton Way. To the west is the village and parish of Colebatch. There is a part-time post office, area store, school and also church here. Additionally there is a hostelry called the Powis Arms. According to the Institute for Name Studies the name is Old English in derivation and also suggests 'Fortification on the * Hlyde (= noisy stream)', perhaps a very early name for the River Kemp. The village lies in between 155m and 165m above water level. Whilst the land to the south is level, to the north it rises steeply. Priors Holt, Priors Holt Hill as well as Churchmoor go to the northeastern extremities of the parish, the church of which in Lydbury North, St Michael and All Angels, contains a small Catholic church.
