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The Ancient Parish of LANGTOFT
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"LANGTOFT, a parish in the wapentake of Dickering and liberty of St. Peter's; 6 miles N. of Driffield. The church (see Churches for photograph) is dedicated to St. Peter and the living, which is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Prebendary of Langtoft, is enjoyed by the Rev. Jones Thompson. Pop. 416,Peter Langtoft, an eminent Chronicler, so called from this place, was a Canon regular, of the order of St. Austin, at Bridlington, and wrote a Chronicle of England in French verse, in the time of Edward I. or II. which was afterwards translated in the latter of those reigns, by Robert of Brunne, and edited by Hearns in 1725. He died in the beginning of the reign of Edward II."
"COTTAM, in the parish of Langtoft, wapentake of Dickering, and liberty of St. Peter's; 1¾ miles SW. of Langtoft, 5 miles NNW. of Driffield. Here is a Chapel of Ease (see Churches for photograph) to Langtoft. Pop. 16."
[Description(s) edited mainly from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson. ©2010]
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- Photographs of over 480 gravestones in Langtoft Churchyard with linked surname index.
- Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
- St Peter's Church, Langtoft.
- Another view of St Peter's Church, Langtoft.
- Internal view looking down the aisle
- The East Window
- The font
- The font cover
- The old Langtoft font
- The Cottam font
- The Ruined Church, Cottam.
- The ex-St. Mary's Methodist Church, Langtoft, being converted for use as a factory.
- Transcript of the entry for Langtoft in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Cottam in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Langtoft.
- The List of Vicars for St. Peter's Church, Langtoft.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory of 1823, of the East Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the The Post Office Directory of the, East and North Ridings, 1857
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Bulmers Directory of 1892. of the East Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Bulmer's 1892 History and Directory of the East Riding.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Langtoft to another place.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
- For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
- Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA011668 (Lat/Lon: 54.087193, -0.455905), Langtoft 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 World War I & II Memorial Plaque in St. Peter's Church, Langtoft.
- The 1914-19 and 1939-45 War Memorial on Langtoft village green.
- The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
- (SE987657) Cottam Grange
- (SE999649) Cottam House
- (TA020675) Langtoft Field (now Field House)
- (SE997660) Langtoft Grange
- (TA010655) Tranmere House
- (TA002662) Woodbine Cottage (now Woodbine Farm)
- (TA001665) Wold House
- A transcription of the School Timetables, around 1902-3 in Adobe pdf format.
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- The 1834 Electoral Roll for this parish