Description
Lydham, a village and a township in Salop, and a parish partly also in Montgomeryshire. The village stands near the river Camlet, at the boundary with Wales, and near Lydham Heath station on the Bishops Castle railway, 2 miles NNE of Bishops Castle. The parish comprises 1927 acres in Salop and 1146 acres, forming the township of Aston, in Montgomeryshire. Post town, Bishops Castle (R.S.O.) Population of the Salop portion, 110; of Aston township, 56. Oakeley House is the seat of the Oakeley family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £250. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1885.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
