A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
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.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Church Langton CP/AP Market Harborough RegD/PLU Leicestershire AncC |
| Place: | Church Langton |
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