Langford

The Library at Newark will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the North Collingham sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• There was a church here at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew.
   
• The church was built in the 13th century to the north of the Medieval village of Langford.
   
• The church was built next to the Trent Riveer, but one stormy night in 1575 there was a flood and the Trent changed its course away from the church.
   
• The church was reroofed in 1878.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Bartholomew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.
   
• Tim HEATONT has a photograph of the other side of St. Bartholomew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2009.
   
• Richard CROFT also has a nice view of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1696 for baptisms and burials, and from 1698 for marriages. It is in fair condition.
   
• Also, you can search the East Trent Genealogy site for church records.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Collingham.
   

• The parish was in the North Collingham sub-district of the Newark Registration District for Civil Registration.
   
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   

Langford is described, in 1881, as a "Scattered village" and a parish, near the River Trent, 3 miles north of Newark and 127 miles north of London.

This place was a Roman settlement.

The Medieval village was just north of the present village of Langford.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Langford to another place.

You can see the administrative areas in which Langford has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

• In the 1068 Domesday Book this place is noted as "Landeforde".
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Site of Langford village on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2013.
   
• There is a nice potted history of Lanford at the Winthorpe Village website.

Jonathan THATCHER has a photograph of Langford Old Hall on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK821591 (Lat/Lon: 53.122761, -0.774624), Langford which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

The Great War Bulletin for December 7, 1914 tells us that two men of Langford, W. J. GIBSON, a farm foreman and S. TOWNSEND, a labourer, had been appointed as "Special Constables" to assist the police force in the event of a German invasion.

Here are the names that appear on the War Memorial (9 from WWI, 3 from WWII):

1. Adams, T.
2. Benfield, Alfred Frank
3. Jerram, H. R.
4. Jones, J.
5. Lumsden, H.
6. Mitchell, Thomas Frederick
7. Moreino, Charles H.
8. Russell, Alexander Christopher
9. Simpson, G.
10. Smith, F.
11. Smith, Robert
12. Watts, F. E.

• This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and it became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the northern division of the ancient Newark Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Newark petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Newark Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	124
1831	125
1851	146
1871	158
1881	167
1891	181
1901	145