Thorpe Langton

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The Bakers Arm Pub
Total Population of Thorpe Langton Civil Parish, Leicestershire, as reported by the Census of Population from 1881-2011.

Thorpe Langton (derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for an enclosure, meaning "long town")[1] is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, about four miles north of Market Harborough. The parish had a population of 171 according to the 2001 census. Ten years later, in the 2011 census, the population had grown to 200.[2] Thorpe Langton is the home of the Baker's Arms pub and St. Leonard's church, but is otherwise solely residential. Thorpe Langton is in a rural setting.

In the 1870's Thorpe Langton's Church was about to be restored.

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.[3]


References

  1. ↑ "Saxons on the Edge". Time Team. Season 15. Episode 8. 2008-02-24. http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2008/knave-hill/index.html.
  2. ↑ "Thorpe Langton ( Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 February 2014. 
  3. ↑ Wilson, John Marius (1870-72). Gazetteer of England and Wales. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co. Retrieved 5 February 2014. 

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Coordinates: 52°31′N 0°54′W / 52.517°N 0.900°W / 52.517; -0.900


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