In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Church Langton like this:
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.
Church Langton through time
Church Langton is now part of Harborough district. Click here for graphs and data of how Harborough has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Church Langton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Church Langton, in Harborough and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20876
Date accessed: 30th April 2024
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