Lydd

Lydd is covered by postcode district TN29. It is in the Folkestone and Hythe council area, Kent.

Typical price £248,000 Homes sold in Lydd, last 12 months. ▼ 2.4% on the year before Gigabit broadband 112 of 128 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 51 of 129 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 2 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Lydd, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Lydd, by flood risk Of the 129 postcodes in Lydd that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst, 49 are at very low risk only and 78 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Lydd. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. TN29 9AE: not on the flood risk listTN29 9AF: not on the flood risk listTN29 9AH: not on the flood risk listTN29 9AL: not on the flood risk listTN29 9AP: not on the flood risk listTN29 9AR: not on the flood risk listTN29 9AS: not on the flood risk listTN29 9AT: not on the flood risk listTN29 9AU: not on the flood risk listTN29 9AY: not on the flood risk listTN29 9AZ: not on the flood risk listTN29 9BA: not on the flood risk listTN29 9BP: not on the flood risk listTN29 9BS: not on the flood risk listTN29 9BU: not on the flood risk listTN29 9BX: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DD: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DE: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DG: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DH: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DJ: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DL: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DN: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DP: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DQ: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DR: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DS: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DT: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DU: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DW: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DX: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DY: not on the flood risk listTN29 9DZ: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EB: not on the flood risk listTN29 9ED: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EE: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EF: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EG: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EH: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EJ: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EL: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EN: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EP: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EQ: not on the flood risk listTN29 9ES: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EU: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EX: not on the flood risk listTN29 9EZ: not on the flood risk listTN29 9FA: not on the flood risk listTN29 9FB: not on the flood risk listTN29 9HF: not on the flood risk listTN29 9HL: not on the flood risk listTN29 9HN: not on the flood risk listTN29 9HP: not on the flood risk listTN29 9HR: not on the flood risk listTN29 9HT: not on the flood risk listTN29 9HU: not on the flood risk listTN29 9HZ: not on the flood risk listTN29 9JA: not on the flood risk listTN29 9JB: not on the flood risk listTN29 9JD: not on the flood risk listTN29 9JE: not on the flood risk listTN29 9JF: not on the flood risk listTN29 9JG: not on the flood risk listTN29 9JT: not on the flood risk listTN29 9JX: not on the flood risk listTN29 9LH: not on the flood risk listTN29 9LJ: not on the flood risk listTN29 9LL: not on the flood risk listTN29 9LP: not on the flood risk listTN29 9LT: not on the flood risk listTN29 9LW: not on the flood risk listTN29 9LX: not on the flood risk listTN29 9LY: not on the flood risk listTN29 9LZ: not on the flood risk listTN29 9NQ: not on the flood risk listTN29 9UR: not on the flood risk listTN29 9AA: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9AJ: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9AN: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9AW: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9AX: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BB: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BD: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BE: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BG: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BH: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BJ: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BL: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BN: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BQ: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BT: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BW: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BY: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9BZ: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9DA: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9DB: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9DF: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9ER: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9ET: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9EW: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9EY: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9FD: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9HA: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9HB: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9HD: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9HE: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9HG: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9HH: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9HJ: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9HQ: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9HW: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9HX: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9HY: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9JJ: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9JU: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9LA: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9LB: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9LD: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9LE: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9LF: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9LG: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9LN: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9LQ: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9UT: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9UU: very low flood risk onlyTN29 9JR: high flood risk Lydd Map of every postcode in Lydd, by flood risk Of the 129 postcodes in Lydd that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst, 49 are at very low risk only and 78 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Lydd. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Lydd
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 49
  • Not on the at-risk list: 78

Of the 129 postcodes in Lydd that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst, 49 are at very low risk only and 78 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 50.9507, longitude 0.9072. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

TN29 9JR2 at high risk

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

TN29 9QL

What is it like to live in Lydd?

Homes sold for a typical £248,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.4% on the 12 months before. At 112 of the 128 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 2 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 51 of its 129 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Church Lane Health Centre, 4.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Appledore (Kent), 11.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Lydd?

Homes in Lydd sold for a typical £248,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 39 sales, down 2.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£248,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£254,000
12 months to August 2026
£248,000

▼ down 2.4% on the 12 months before

Detached£335,000 5 sales
Semi-detached£249,000 16 sales
Terraced£235,000 17 sales
Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole TN29 district, Lydd's main postcode district: a typical £290,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Lydd: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Lydd?

None of the 129 postcodes now in use in Lydd came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 51 homes sold in Lydd were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TN29 district, 2%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn LyddAcross the TN29 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 39 (0%) 1 of 141 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 51 (0%) 5 of 216 (2%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Lydd?

Ofcom reports on 128 of the 129 postcodes in Lydd. At 112 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit112 of 128
Postcodes where every home can get superfast126 of 128

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Lydd at risk of flooding?

51 of the 129 postcodes in Lydd have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 2 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 51 of 129 postcodes High: 2Low: 4Very low: 739

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Lydd?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Lydd. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Lydd?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Lydd is Appledore (Kent) Rail Station, 11.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Appledore (Kent) Rail Station Railway station 11.2 kmDrive
  • Rye Rail Station Railway station 12.4 kmDrive
  • Ham Street Rail Station Railway station 13.6 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Lydd?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Lydd. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Lydd safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 206 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Lydd over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 20 September 2025
  2. 10 October 2025
  3. 20 November 2025
  4. 11 December 2025
  5. 8 January 2026
  6. 25 February 2026
  7. 22 March 2026
  8. 11 April 2026
  9. 13 May 2026
  10. 19 June 2026
  11. 25 July 2026
  12. 22 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences80 reports
Anti-social behaviour39 reports
Criminal damage and arson32 reports
Public order11 reports
Vehicle crime8 reports
Other theft7 reports
Other crime7 reports
Burglary6 reports

Also: shoplifting 6, drugs 6, possession of weapons 2, bicycle theft 1, robbery 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Lydd?

District, borough or city council
Folkestone and Hythe
County council
Kent
Parliamentary constituency
Folkestone and Hythe
Police force area
Kent
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Tony Vaughan (Labour)

All 129 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

Moving to Lydd

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Lydd postcodes

129 postcodes in use in Lydd, by district:

TN29 postcode district,129 postcodes

That district is in the TN postcode area.

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Places near Lydd

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Lydd's £248,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Littlestone-on-Sea4.5 km, £350,000New Romney4.8 km, £330,000St Mary's Bay8.2 km, £295,000Dymchurch11.5 km, £317,000Rye12.2 km, £330,000Hamstreet13.2 km, £457,500Winchelsea Beach13.8 km, £338,000Hythe18.1 km, £353,123 All places A to Z

Questions about Lydd

What is it like to live in Lydd?
Homes sold for a typical £248,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.4% on the 12 months before. At 112 of the 128 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 2 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 51 of its 129 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Church Lane Health Centre, 4.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Appledore (Kent), 11.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Lydd?
Lydd is covered by postcode district TN29, across 129 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Lydd in?
Lydd is in the Folkestone and Hythe council area, and Kent is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Lydd?
Lydd is in the Folkestone and Hythe parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Tony Vaughan (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Lydd?
Homes in Lydd sold for a typical £248,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 39 sales, down 2.4% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Lydd?
In Lydd, primary schools at its postcodes include Lydd Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Marsh Academy, 5.0 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Lydd have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Lydd is Appledore (Kent), 11.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Lydd?
Ofcom reports on 128 of the 129 postcodes in Lydd. At 112 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Lydd at risk of flooding?
51 of the 129 postcodes in Lydd have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 2 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Lydd?
None of the 129 postcodes now in use in Lydd came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 51 homes sold in Lydd were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TN29 district, 2%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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