| Country: | England |
| Region: | South East England |
| Shire District: | Maidstone |
| Shire County: | Kent |
| Coordinates: | 51.3309°N 0.5634°W |
| Static Image Name: | The Harrow, Lidsing - geograph.org.uk - 1733778.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | The Harrow Pub, Lidsing |
| Civil Parish: | Boxley |
| Constituency Westminster: | Faversham and Mid Kent |
| Postcode District: | ME7 |
| Postcode Area: | ME |
| Post Town: | Gillingham |
Lidsing is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Boxley, [1] in the Maidstone district, in the county of Kent, England. It is near the M2 motorway and south of Gillingham, adjacent to Bredhurst. In 1911 the parish had a population of 98.[2]
Previously a manor/estate called Lydesinge partially in the parishes of Chatham[3] and Gillingham,[4] including part of the area that is now Hempstead, the district was the site of a chapel of ease, St. Mary Magdalene's, from the 12th Century. The chapel was demolished in the 1880s.[5]
Lidsing was formerly a ville in Medway district,[6] from 1866 Lidsing was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 October 1913 the parish was abolished and merged with Gillingham.[7]