Lyddington is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

[4] Lyddington Bede House, owned by English Heritage, is a Grade I listed building[5] incorporating parts of a medieval bishop's palace.

In 1547 it was seized on behalf of the king from the Bishops of Lincoln and later passed to Lord Burghley.

Residents of Lyddington raised £37,000 to offer 200 homes the super-fast broadband that BT could not deliver.

[7] This was the first time in the UK that fibre to the cabinet technology was used in a rural village.