The village of Lidlington is in the Marston Vale in central Bedfordshire.
Lidlington was mentioned in the Domesday Book, the manor of Litinclitone (as it was known then) being held by the Abbess of Barking. After the dissolution, the manor was surrendered to the Crown before being handed over to Edward Ditchfield in 1628. In 1801, the manor became the possession of the Duke of Bedford. The Duke built a Gothic style church in the village in 1845.
Next to the village was a brickworks (a common feature in the Marston Vale), the site is now a large Amazon warehouse. Also next to the village is Millbrook Proving Ground, once the test track of Vauxhall cars, but now used by many manufacturers and is one of the largest vehicle testing centres in Europe.
Lidlington railway station opened in 1846. The main station building (now a private residence) was in the Gothic Revival style on the insistence of the 7th Duke of Bedford.
