Lidsing is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Boxley, [1] in the Maidstone district, in the county of Kent, England.

It is near the M2 motorway and south of Gillingham, adjacent to Bredhurst.

[2] Previously a manor/estate called Lydesinge partially in the parishes of Chatham[3] and Gillingham,[4] including part of the area that is now Hempstead, the district was the site of a chapel of ease, St. Mary Magdalene's, from the 12th Century.

[5] Lidsing was formerly a ville in Medway district,[6] from 1866 Lidsing was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 October 1913 the parish was abolished and merged with Gillingham.

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