Lyddtown (parish), Shepway district, administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. Nearby is the complex shingle (gravel) spit of Dungeness, on the coast of the English Channel, where a nuclear power station has been built.

Until the 14th century the town was on an island and was a member of the Cinque Ports, but it now lies 3 miles (5 km) from the sea. Its parish church includes Saxon work and has a tower that is a widely known landmark. Nearby Ferryfield Airport has car ferry services to the European mainland. Two nuclear power stations were built on the Dungeness promontory; the first began generating power in the mid-1960s and ceased operating in 2006, and generation from the second started in the mid-1980s.. Pop. (2001) 5,782; (2011) 6,567.