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thumb|St Mary's church Lidgate is a small village and a civil parish in the St Edmundsbury District, in the English county of Suffolk. Lidgate is located on the B1063 road in between the towns of Newmarket and Clare. The population of Lidgate is around 250.
St Mary's church dates from the 13th century and is a Grade II* listed building. The village was the origin of John Lydgate (c. 1370 – c. 1451), monk and poet; he left his signature and a coded message in graffiti on a wall of the church.
The adjacent Lidgate Castle is a medieval motte and bailey castle built to an unusual quandrangular design.
Usage examples of "lidgate".
Bullein, for the sake of variety and amusement, introduces notices of Chaucer, Gower, Lidgate, Skelton, and Barclay, which, coming from a man who was contemporary with two of them, may be accepted as generally accurate representations.