Langriville is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, England, about north west of the town of

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

on the B1192, and on the banks of the

River Witham The River Witham is a river almost entirely in the county of Lincolnshire in the east of England. It rises south of Grantham close to South Witham at , passes through the centre of Grantham (where it may be closely followed using the Riversid ...

History

Langriville was created a township in 1812 near a ferry over the River Witham called Langrick Ferry (now

Langrick Bridge Langrick Bridge is a village in the civil parish of Holland Fen with Brothertoft in the Boston (borough), Borough of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. The village is in the The Fens, Lincolnshire Fens, north-west of Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston a ...

) from which the parish has taken its name. The parish consists of the portion of Wildmore Fen allotted to the Earl of Stamford & Warrington in lieu of his manorial rights over Armtree and Wildmore fens. It was said by

Pishey Thompson Pishey Thompson (1784–1862) was an English publisher and antiquarian writer, known as a historian of Boston, Lincolnshire. He spent the years 1819 to 1846 in the United States. Life Thompson was born at Peachey Hall, Freiston, near Boston, Linco ...

in his ''History and Antiquities of Boston'', that the name probably came from "Long Creek" as it was the largest and longest creek in the fen, where about a mile north of the present village of

Langrick Langrick is a small village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Langriville, and on the B1192 road, north-west from Boston. The village lies in the Lincolnshire Fens, and less than east from th ...

there was a sluice erected in 1543. The area was formerly belonging to

Kirkstead Abbey Kirkstead Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in Kirkstead, Lincolnshire, England. The monastery was founded in 1139 by Hugh Brito, (or Hugh son of Eudo), lord of Tattershall, and was originally colonised by an abbot and twelve monks from Fo ...

as is evidenced by references made by the

Corporation records claiming rights on Armtree Fen in the early 17th Century. According to

William Marrat William Marrat (1772–1852) was an English printer, publisher and educator, known as a mathematician and antiquarian. Life Born at Sibsey, Lincolnshire, on 6 April 1772, Marrat was self-taught through wide reading and study of modern language. W ...

's ''History of Lincolnshire'', there was a hermitage belonging to

here.

Church

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Church was built in

village in 1828, but was not dedicated until 20 April 1922. The registers of births and deaths date from 1831, and those of marriages from 1837. The church was restored and redecorated in 1935, and further work was carried out in 1968.

Population

References

{{East Lindsey (district) Civil parishes in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District