Lydd-on-Sea is a modern village, mostly built after World War II

World War II

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, which consists mainly of bungalow

Bungalow

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s built along the Dungeness coastal road south of Greatstone, Kent

Kent

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, England

England

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. The Southern Railway opened a railway station

Lydd-on-Sea Halt railway station

Lydd-on-Sea Halt was a railway station which served the modern village of Lydd-on-Sea in Kent, England. The station opened in 1937 and closed in 1967.- History :...

 here in 1937, but this was closed in 1967. Lydd-on-Sea is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Lydd, now several miles distant, which once had access to the sea.

An island in a lake (created by gravel extraction) slightly to the north west of Lydd-on-Sea is the site of a collection of sound mirrors

Sound Mirrors

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 designed by Dr William Sansome Tucker

William Sansome Tucker

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, to detect the approach of enemy aircraft, in the years before RADAR had been developed.