Langton Long Blandford is a small village and

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 ...

in the

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...

in southern

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. It is sited by the River Stour, approximately southeast of

Blandford Forum Blandford Forum ( ), commonly Blandford, is a market town in Dorset, England, sited by the River Stour, Dorset, River Stour about northwest of Poole. It was the administrative headquarters of North Dorset District until April 2019, when this ...

. 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 Buzbury Rings is an Iron Age hillfort about east of Blandford Forum and northwest of the village of Tarrant Keyneston, in Dorset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Description The site is on a hill on Keynston Down. There is an in ...

, on nearby Keyneston Hill, to a

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over the river.

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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.

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