MAKE A MEME View Large Image West Parley during the 14c. In due course, she married a man from Lydlinch where she lived for the rest of her life. However, her heart was always in West Parley and when she died, she left instructions that her heart should be buried ...
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Keywords: 'Legend has it that she [the Lady of Lydlinch] was born and brought-up in West Parley during the 14c. In due course, she married a man from Lydlinch where she lived for the rest of her life. However, her heart was always in West Parley and when she died, she left instructions that her heart should be buried there. During restoration of the West Parley church, a 14c urn was found and placed in a glazed niche, behind bars, in the outside of the east wall where it can be seen to this day. Outside the porch at Lydlinch church there is an ancient tomb with the following words inscribed: "Here lie the remains of a lady who gave the rector of this church for ever one portion of 'tyths' arising out of Dudsbury farm in West Parley and another out of Knowle farm in Woodlands".' www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/lydlinch.htm
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