Lud’s Church may also be named after Walter de Lud Auk, a ‘Lollard’ who prepared the way for the adoption of the Bible in English in this country (can’t go letting people actually read the thing for themselves, surely?)
Read more at the BBCi ‘Legacies’ site:
bbc.co.uk/legacies/myths_legends/england/stoke_staffs/article_1.shtml