Langton Herring is a village and
civil parish
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in the
county
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of
Dorset
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in
South West England
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. It lies about north-west of the
coastal resort town
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of
Weymouth. It is "prudently set on a ridge above the Fleet", the Fleet being a
brackish
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lagoon behind
Chesil Beach
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.
Dorset County Council
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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
Fleet may refer to:
Vehicles
*Fishing fleet
*Naval fleet
*Fleet vehicles, a pool of motor vehicles
*Fleet Aircraft, the aircraft manufacturing company
Places
Canada
*Fleet, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
England
* The Fleet Lagoon, at Chesil Beach, ...
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
Thankful Villages (also known as Blessed Villages; ) are settlements in England and Wales from which all their members of the armed forces survived World War I. The term Thankful Village was popularised by the writer Arthur Mee in the 1930s; in '' ...
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
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stone monolith, which is missing the top arm.[West Dorset District Council, ''Holiday and Tourist Guide'', c.1983, p10]
Notable people
*April FitzLyon
April FitzLyon (22 April 1920 – 17 September 1998) was an English translator, biographer, and historian.
Early life
Born Cecily April Mead, at Langton Herring, Dorset, in 1920, she was educated as a small child in France and later at St Mary ...
* Stephen Harris (painter)
References
External links
Langton Herring local history
Villages in Dorset
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