Lydbury North is a village and a geographically large civil parish in south Shropshire, England.The population of the Civil Parish at the 2011 census was 695. The parish is locally called Lydbury and there is no settlement called Lydbury South. It is located at grid reference SO352859. According to the Institute for Name Studies the name is Old English in derivation and means 'Fortification on the *Hlyde (= noisy stream)', perhaps an early name for the River Kemp. The village lies between 155m and 165m above sea level. Whilst the land to the south is flat, to the north it rises steeply.