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The Ancient Parish of LANGTON
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"LANGTON, a parish in the wapentake of Buckrose; 3½ miles S. of Malton. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew (see Churches for photograph), and the living, which is a rectory, in the patronage of the King, is enjoyed by the Rev. Francis Drake. Population, 280.The Church was given by Burga, wife of Wm. Vesey, to the Priory of Malton, thence it came to the crown."
"KENNYTHORPE, in the parish of Langton, and wapentake of Buckrose; 1 mile SSW. of Langton, 3¼ miles S. of Malton. Population, 83."
[Description(s) edited mainly from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson. ©2010]
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- Photographs of the over 170 gravestones and plaques at Langton with linked surname index.
- Here is a photograph of St. Andrew's Church, Langton.
- Internal view looking down the aisle
- The Font
- The Norcliffe family monument
- Transcript of the entry for Langton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Langton.
- The List of Rectors in St. Andrew's Church, Langton.
- 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 Langton 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 SE797671 (Lat/Lon: 54.093641, -0.782891), Langton 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.
- A transcription of the School Timetables, around 1902-3 in Adobe pdf format.
- This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies: