Church Langton Leicestershire Family History Guide
Church Langton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire. Tur Langton and Thorpe Langton are chapelries of Church Langton.
Other places in the parish include: East Langton.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St Peter
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1646
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1569
Nonconformists include: Calvinist and Independent/Congregational.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHURCH-LANGTON, a parish in Market-Harborough district, Leicester; on an affluent of the river Welland, 2½ miles E by S of Kibworth r. station, and 4¼ N of Market-Harborough.
It has a post-office under Leicester; and it contains the township of Thorp-Langton, which has a post-office under Market-Harborough, and the townships of Tur-Langton, East Langton, and West Langton. Acres, 4, 280. Real property, £12, 667. Pop., 842. Houses, 214. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £945. Patron, the Rev. W. Hanbury. The parochial church is ancient, and was restored in 1864.
There are two chapels of ease, an Independent chapel, free schools, and charities £646; the last Chiefly from plantations by the botanist Hanbury, who died in 1778. Bishop Walter de Langton and Staveley, the author of the “Romish Horseleech,” were natives.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Directory of Leicestershire 1846
LANGTON EAST or CHURCH LANGTON, is a pleasant village, on an eminence, 4½ miles N of Market Harborough and 11 miles SE of Leicester. Its township contains 288 inhabitants, and 994a 2r 16p of land, mostly having a fertile clayey soil. Its PARISH, generally called CHURCH LANGTON, includes also Thorpe Langton, Tur Langton, and West Langton; and the four townships comprise 4234 acres, and 869 souls. WEST LANGTON township has only 973a 1r 5p of land, and 71 inhabitants, and its houses adjoin the village of East Langton.
EAST AND WEST LANGTON DIRECTORY
(Those marked * are in West Langton)
Barratt Mary butcher
Barratt Wm butcher
Beadman Zachariah vict Bell
Brittain John horse dealer
Cobley John, jun. joiner &c
Coleman Danie, ketchup maker
Collins Wm ketchup maker
Gimson Caroline ladies seminary
Gimson Eliza maltster
Greatorex Wm master of free school
Greatorex Fanny milliner & dress maker
Morpott Mrs Sophia
Nutt Nathaniel vict Bull
Simpkin John joiner & shopkeeper *
Swingler Wm baker &c
Timson John blacksmith & farrier
Veasey Mrs Elizabeth *
Warren John shoemaker *
Wright Rev Thos Hawkins MA curate
FARMERS AND GRAZIERS
Bellamy John
Coleman Samuel
Goodman Richd
Grant Wm *
Hales Jane *
Price William, Lodge *
Sharman John
Smith John and miller
Walker Wm *
Warren John
Warren Wm *
CARRIER Henry Gibbon to Market Harbro’, Tues & Leicester Sat
Source: History, gazetteer, and directory of Leicestershire, and … Rutland; together with the adjacent towns of Grantham & Stamford By William White · 1846
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Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Market Harborough
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Gartree
- Poor Law Union: Market Harborough
- Hundred: Gartree (Leicestershire)
- Province: Canterbury