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Church Langton (Langton)

Description in 1877:
"CHURCH LANGTON parish is in Gartree Hundred, Market Harborough Union and that County Court District, comprising the township of East Langton, West Langton, Thorp Langton, and Tur Langton. It contained, in 1871, 757 persons, living in 204 houses, on 4,280 acres of land. The parish was enclosed in 1790, and is bounded bon the east and west by two rivulets, which unite in the Welland about three miles S.S.E. of East Langton."
White's "History Gazetteer and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland, 3rd Edition," 1877

Census

• The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough Registration District.
  
  
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter and stands in East Langton.
  
  
• The church was built before 1615.
  
  
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1866.
  
  
• The church seats 287.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1581 for baptisms, 1654 for marriages and 1651 for burials.
  
  
• Another source quotes a date of 1569 for the start of the register.
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of Gartree (first portion).
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Church Langton is a parish and a village in Leicestershire, close to the route of the old Roman Road that runs southeast out of Leicester. It is about 86 miles north of London, 11 miles southeast of Leicester city and 4.5 miles north of Market Harborough. Tur Langton parish lies to the north and Foxton parish to the southwest. The parish covers 4,280 acres and includes the townships of Tur Langton, West Langton, East Langton and Thorpe Langton.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, it is probably easiest to take the B6047 arterial road north out of Market Harborough. Church Langton will be just off the road to the west.
  
  

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History

• The parish was largely used for grazing land.
  
  

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Manors

• Church Langton Hall was occupied by Joseph John BROWN in 1881.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SP 7293.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• The place was an ancient parish of Leicester county as well as a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish is in the ancient Gartree Hundred in the southern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Harborough petty session hearings.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1841	869
1871	757
1881	664
1901	652

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Schools

• There was a small school in the parish by 1881.
  
  
• By 1912, the children of this parish were attending school in nearby Church Langton.
  
  

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