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Lydford-on-Fosse is a village and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. The parish includes the village of West Lydford and hamlet of East Lydford. ==History== Lydford-on-Fosse straddles the Fosse Way, an ancient Roman road which linked the cities of Lincoln and Exeter. The village takes its name from two Saxon words, Lyd ''torrent or noisy stream'' and Ford ''a passage crossing a river'', and was established before the Norman Conquest.〔 The villages of East and West Lydford are to the east and west of the ford which was where the Fosse Way crossed the river Brue. A place where a river could be forded became a meeting place and a centre for trade and the granting of a charter for a fair and weekly market in the reign of Henry III (1216 - 1272) suggests that Lydford was already a place of some importance by that time. Fair Place, West Lydford, is where the fair was held. At least 1800 years of recorded history of East and West Lydford, with entries for both in the Doomsday Book, have led to the Parish now known as Lydford on Fosse. The parish of West Lydford was part of the hundred of Catsash, while East Lydford was in Somerton Hundred.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 The modern A37 trunk road follows the route of the ancient Fosse Way through the parish. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lydford-on-Fosse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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