Lordship of Lydiate

The manor of Lydiate is situated about 10 miles (16 km) from Liverpool on the Southport Road.

[1] The ancient reading of Lydiate points to its etymology “lea”, a field or pasture and “ate”, a gate.

Following the Norman Conquest Uctred was dispossessed and the Conqueror granted Lydiate to Roger of Poictou, a great Normal earl who accordingly gave the Manor to Paganus de Vilars to hold it under him on the service of a knight's fee.

In the early 15th century the Lordship passed by marriage into the de Ireland family and remained with the family until the death of Laurence Ireland in 1673 when he was succeeded by his son-in-law Charles Anderton.

The current Lord of Lydiate is Peter Forster-Dean who is thirty-second in descent from Roger of Poictou.