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About one mile from, and in the ecclesiastical parish of Charney Bassett, is the
small village of Lyford. The name derives from a ford over the river and Ly
indicates a place where flax was once grown.
Lyfords link with history is bound up in Lyford Grange, the house where the
Jesuit priest and martyr, Edmund Campion, in the reign of Elizabeth I, was
captured after celebrating Mass in 1581. He has since been canonised.
The small church of St Mary is mainly Jacobean, and was built on the site of an
earlier oratory or chapel of ease. It serves a parish of only about 70 souls.
There is no shop or inn, but Lyford shares all the amenities of Charney Bassett.
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