Langwith

Langwith is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes three stops, two on Main Street, every fourth Friday in the early afternoon.

The nearby Shirebrook Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

You should also consider a visit to the Langwith Heritage Centre on North Street Whaley Thorns.

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the grave of Lily Green in Upper Langwith on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.

We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a file for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Cross.
   
• White's 1857 Directory reports the dedication is to Saint Helen.
   
• The church was originally built in 1140.
   
• The church was restored in 1877.
   
• The church seats 150.
   
• There is a photograph of Holy Cross Church at Francis Frith's site.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1685 for burials.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.

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

"UPPER LANGWITH, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 6 miles N.W. of Mansfield, its post town, and 9 S.E. of Chesterfield. It is a small irregularly built village, and is wholly agricultural."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

The parish is on the Poulter River bordering Nottinghamshire, lies 3 miles south-east of Bolsover and covers 1,444 acres. Langwith today is actually a collection of four villages which extend into Nottinghamshire.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Upper Langwith entry in Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
   
• Brett PAYNE also provides this entry from Bagshaw's 1846 Directory of Derbyshire:

LANGWITH, commonly called Upper Langwith, is a parish and scattered village on the border of Nottinghamshire, 6 miles S. by W. from Mansfield, and 3 miles S.E. from Bolsover, contains 1,444 acres of land, including 261 acres of wood, 39 houses, and 194 inhabitants, of whom 101 were males and 93 females. Surnames included in the directory of (Upper) Langwith:
BURTON, CHARLESWORTH, JARVIS, MOODY, REVILL, TIMONS, BARGH, BROWN, BUNTING, LUDLOW, TURNER, VICKERS and WOOD.

• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Upper Langwith from the National Gazetteer (1868).

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

J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Devonshire Arms, Upper Langwith, on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.

Chris MORGAN has a photograph of the Old Hall in Upper Langwith on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2014.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK510684 (Lat/Lon: 53.209943, -1.237797), Langwith 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 North Derbyshire Isolation Hospital was opened here in 1908 for 30 patients.

Hospitals were not required to archive patient records, but you may find administrative records or photographs in the archives.

This appears to be the War Memorial Cross in the churchyard at Upper Langwith.

Langwith was chosen for secret World War One work when the colliery site was identified as one of four places in the country to build a factory to make the chemical that went inside the sea mines. The mines were used in the English Channel and Scapa Flow.

Inside Upper Langwith's Holy Cross church is a Cross Memorial mounted high on the wall to: Gunner George W. NIXON, Machine Gun Corps (Motors), who died 28 April1918,  Age: 24, the son of Benjamin and Annie NIXON. Annie also died in 1918.

Please see the Roll of Honour website for a complete list of those lost in the two World Wars.

• Upper Langwith was also known as Langwith Bassett (q.v. Kelly's 1891 Directory entry)

• This place was an ancient parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In April, 1935, this Civil Parish was abolished and the land divided between Shirebrook and Scarcliffe Civil Parishes.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bolsover District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be held in the Chesterfield petty session hearings every Saturday.
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.

In Feb. 1611/12 the Will of Christopher RENSHAW of Langwith was proved and surnames mentioned as sons-in-law include:
ELICOKE
COWPER
DRABLE
as well as RENSHAW, plus Maxsell BARKER and John JOHNSON as witnesses.

Langwith Council School (mixed) opened for 200 children in 1907. Average attendance in 1911 was 160.

Shirebrook Academy is located on Common Lane in Langwith Junction. The school is relatively new.