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Thorpe Langton (Thorp Langton)

Description in 1877:
"LANGTON-THORPE, a township in Church-Langton parish, Leicester; 3½ miles N by E of Market-Harborough. It has a post-office under Market-Harborough. Real property, £1,947. Pop., 120. Houses, 36. A church is here, as a chapel to Church-Langton; is a small old edifice, comprising nave, aisles, chancel, and S porch, with pinnacled-tower and octagonal spire; and was about to be restored in 1864, at a cost of £1,000."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Walesn," 1870-72]

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 was dedicated to Saint Leonard.
  
  
• The church was built in the early Norman period during the 12th century.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1868 by the Hanbury charity.
  
  
• The church was restored again in 1883-84.
  
  
• The church seats 112.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1606.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Gartree (first portion).
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

This village and parish lie just 4 miles north of Market Harborough, just off of the A6 trunk road. Thorpe Langton may be considered a suburb of Market Harborough. The parish is 14 miles southeast of Leicester city and is bound on the west by the Grand Union Canal and on the south and east by the River Welland. The parish covers 1,175 acres.

The parish is almost purely residential and the village is home to the Baker's Arms pub. If you are planning a visit:

• The village has its own website but it has not been well-developed. A street scene is available for viewing.
  
  
• Directions to the Baker's Arms pubwill also bring you to the heart of the village.
  
  
• Check with Langton Brewery to see if they are giving tours of the facility.
  
  

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History

• In the 1800s and early 1900s, much of the parish was pasturage.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SP 7489.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an cncient chapelry and township in Leicester county and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• The parish is in the ancient Gartree Hundred in the southern division of the county.
  
  
• In March of 1885, the parish did a land swap with East Langton Civil Parish where it gained Vendy's Lodge for other parcels.
  
  
• On that same day it gave up Caudwell to Welham Civil Parish and gained a portion of West Langton Civil Parish in return.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union when the parish was formed in 1866.
  
  
• Market Harborough Workhouse is in this parish.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• The webpage author could find no listing of a school at Thorpe Langton.
  
  

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[Lasr updated: 14-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]