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Langton Burn
Langton may refer to: Places ;Canada *Langton, Ontario ;England *Church Langton, Leicestershire *East Langton, Leicestershire *Great Langton, North Yorkshire * Langton, Cumbria *Langton, County Durham *Langton, Lincolnshire *Langton, North Yorkshire *Langton Green, Kent *Langton Hall, Leicestershire *Langton Herring, Dorset *Langton Long Blandford, Dorset * Langton Matravers, Dorset *Little Langton, North Yorkshire *Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire *Tur Langton, Leicestershire ;Scotland * Langton, Scottish Borders **Langton Castle ;Wales * Langton, Pembrokeshire Other uses *Langton (surname) Langton is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include: * Anne Langton (1804–1893), English-born Canadian landscape artist and miniaturist and writer * Arthur Langton (1912–1942), South African cricketer * Baden Langton, co-anchor of ... * Langton's ant {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langton, Ontario
Langton is a small town located in Norfolk County; formerly known as Boughner's Corner. The town can be accessed by travelling to the intersection just slightly to the west of Courtland and turning south on Ontario provincial ''Highway 59'' if coming from Delhi, south if coming from Tillsonburg or if travelling eastbound on Ontario Provincial ''Highway 3'', and straight ahead if travelling southbound using Ontario provincial ''Highway 59''. Summary Langton once had two banks but the CIBC bank closed in May 2016 due to increased online banking activity and the changing Canadian economy; placing the future of offline banking in this community in definite jeopardy. Despite its small population, Langton was considered to be a banking hub for the tobacco farmers during the 20th century. The Bank of Montreal branch closed permanently in August 2020, with COVID-19 attributing to its closure, becoming the second bank to close in Langton. The Langton Baptist Churchyard is the local cem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langton Long Blandford
Langton Long Blandford is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is sited by the River Stour, approximately southeast of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 120. Forming the southeastern line of the parish boundary is an old track linking prehistoric Buzbury Rings, on nearby Keyneston Hill, to a ford over the river.Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale 'Pathfinder' map, sheet ST 80/90 (Blandford Forum), 1972 St Leonards farmhouse used to house a leper hospital A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy. ''M. leprae'', the bacterium responsible for leprosy, is believed to have spread from East Afr .... The parish church was rebuilt in 1862. References Villages in Dorset {{Dorset-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langton Castle
Langton Castle is a now destroyed medieval fortress at Langton, near the burgh of Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland. Little remains of the structure. History Originally belonging to the Viponts, the castle and its estate passed to the Cockburns in 1330 upon the marriage of Sir Alexander de Cokburne and the heiress Maria de Vipont. The castle was then the caput of the Cockburns of Langton until 1745. From 1389 to 1396, Sir Alexander Cockburn of Langton was the Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland. In a dispute over succession to the estate, the castle was besieged by William Cockburn and his brother in law, David Home of Wedderburn in 1517. Antoine d'Arces, Sieur de la Bastie, the French deputy for Regent Albany, summoned Cockburn and Home to resolve the dispute. They in turn broke off the siege and ambushed Bastie near Preston, there they slew him and displayed his head at the Mercat cross of Duns. Mary, Queen of Scots visited the castle in 1566. In 1745, Cockburn of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavinton, Scottish Borders
Gavinton is a small settlement in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, south-west of Duns, the former county town of Berwickshire. The hamlet sits on a minor road off the A6105 Duns to Greenlaw road at . History Gavinton is a relatively new settlement, having been established as a planned estate village in 1759 when David Gavin, the local landowner, decided to demolish the village and the church of Langton, which were situated on his estate, and rebuild them outwith the walls on Crimson Hill. The first records of the area came in the reign of David I of Scotland when Roger d'Eu, the king's retainer, was in possession of lands and church of Langton. Richard was succeeded at Langton by William de Veteriponte (Vipont) and that family were the lairds until 1314 when Sir William, Lord of Langton, died at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. The lordship at Langton Tower passed to Sir Alexander Cockburn when he married Mary, the Vipont heiress. In 1496, King James IV of Scotland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tur Langton
Tur Langton (derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for an enclosure, meaning "long town") is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough Market Harborough is a market town in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, in the far southeast of the county, forming part of the border with Northamptonshire. Market Harborough's population was 25,143 in 2020. It is the ad ... district, in the heart of Leicestershire in England. Tur Langton is home to St Andrews Church and The Crown Inn, situated in the centre of the village. The next nearest settlement of significant size is the civil parish Kibworth Harcourt, found approximately 2 km west of Tur Langton. According to the 2011 census, Tur Langton had a population (including Shangton) of 316. History General history One of the earliest recorded mentions of the existence of Tur Langton is found in the Domesday Book of 1086. However, in the Domesday Book, Tur Langton is listed as 'Terlintone'. Tur Langton's pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorpe Langton
Thorpe Langton (derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for an enclosure, meaning "long town") is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, about four miles north of Market Harborough. The parish had a population of 171 according to the 2001 census. Ten years later, in the 2011 census, the population had grown to 200. Thorpe Langton is the home of the Baker's Arms pub and St. Leonard's church, but is otherwise solely residential. History Thorpe Langton in the ancient county of Leicestershire was classed as a chapelry and township before becoming a modern civil parish in 1866. When it originated as a parish it became part of Market Harborough Poor Law Union which was established in 1834 under the reforms of the Poor Law Act. Market Harborough was Thorpe Langtons' sanitary, local government district and registration sub district. Thorpe Langton is mentioned three times in the Domesday book of 1086, with a population of 29 households and tax assessed at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Langton
Little Langton is a hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The population of the hamlet was estimated at 50 in 2015. As the population remained less than 100 at the 2011 census, details were included in the civil parish of Thrintoft Thrintoft is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated close to the River Swale, west of Northallerton. Thrintoft is mentioned in the Domesday Book as being in the possession of Picot of .... References External links Hamlets in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire {{Hambleton-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langton Matravers
Langton Matravers () is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset in the south of England. It is situated about west of Swanage town centre and south-east of Corfe Castle. In the 2011 Census the civil parish had 381 households and a population of 853. History The name Langton stems from "long town", and is first attested in 1206, as ''Langeton''. Matravers stems from the name of John Mautravers who owned the land there in 1281, and ultimately originates from the French "mal traverse". The Old Malthouse was a preparatory school for boys and, more recently, girls which was founded in 1906, but closed in 2007. Two other preparatory schools Durnford School and Spyway used to be located in the village. Both Durnford and Spyway were closed earlier; Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, was educated at Durnford. On 2 November 2022, the Ordnance Survey (OS) announced that the historic triple alignment of true, magnetic and grid north had made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langton Herring
Langton Herring is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies about north-west of the coastal resort town of Weymouth. It is "prudently set on a ridge above the Fleet", the Fleet being a brackish lagoon behind Chesil Beach. Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 120. In the 2011 census the population of the parish combined with the small parish of Fleet to the south was 240. The name of the village comes from the Old English 'Lang + tun' meaning 'long farmstead or estate' with the 13th Century 'Harang' family affix, from their time as Lords of the Manor. Literature in the church records that all the men of Langton Herring returned from both World Wars, making it one of only a handful of doubly Thankful Villages in the country, and the only village in Dorset to be spared fatalities in the Great War. Just over half a mile to the east of the village, by the B3157 road, is Langton Cross, a medieval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Langton
Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Christian denomination, a Christian organization with distinct doctrine and practice * Christian Church, either the collective body of all Christian believers, or early Christianity Places United Kingdom * Church (Liverpool ward), a Liverpool City Council ward * Church (Reading ward), a Reading Borough Council ward * Church (Sefton ward), a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward * Church, Lancashire, England United States * Church, Iowa, an unincorporated community * Church Lake, a lake in Minnesota Arts, entertainment, and media * '' Church magazine'', a pastoral theology magazine published by the National Pastoral Life Center Fictional entities * Church (''Red vs. Blue''), a fictional character in the video web series ''Red vs. Blue'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langton Hall
Woodleigh School was a preparatory school for boys and girls aged 3 to 13, located in the village of Langton, North Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1929 and closed in August 2012. In its final year, it had 61 pupils, a mixture of day children and boarders. The school was situated at Langton Hall between 1946 and 2012, historically the seat of the Norcliffe family. The Hall that was leased to Woodleigh School, owned at the time by their descendants, the Howard-Vyse family, is a Grade II listed building. History The school was founded in 1929 in Hessle, near Hull, by the late Arthur England, grandfather of the last headmaster. There were no other boys’ preparatory schools in the area at the time. By 1930, two years after the school had launched, there were 25 pupils. During the war Woodleigh moved to Firby Hall near Westow village in 1939. In 1946 the school moved to Langton Hall, south of Malton, in the Yorkshire Wolds. The hall was previously owned by the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
