Thorpe Langton

• The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough Registration District.
   
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Leonard.
   
• The church was built in the early Norman period during the 12th century.
   
• The church was restored in 1868 by the Hanbury charity.
   
• The church was restored again in 1883-84.
   
• The church seats 112.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Church of St. Leonard on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1606.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Gartree (first portion).
   

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

This village and parish lie just 4 miles north of Market Harborough, just off of the A6 trunk road. Thorpe Langton may be considered a suburb of Market Harborough. The parish is 14 miles southeast of Leicester city and is bound on the west by the Grand Union Canal and on the south and east by the River Welland. The parish covers 1,175 acres.

The parish is almost purely residential and the village is home to the Baker's Arms pub. If you are planning a visit:

• Directions to the Baker's Arms pub will also bring you to the heart of the village.
   
• Check with Langton Brewery to see if they are giving tours of the facility.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• In the 1800s and early 1900s, much of the parish was pasturage.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP740924 (Lat/Lon: 52.52446, -0.91073), Thorpe 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.

• This place was an cncient chapelry and township in Leicester county and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish is in the ancient Gartree Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• In March of 1885, the parish did a land swap with East Langton Civil Parish where it gained Vendy's Lodge for other parcels.
   
• On that same day it gave up Caudwell to Welham Civil Parish and gained a portion of West Langton Civil Parish in return.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Harborough petty session hearings held every other Tuesday.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union when the parish was formed in 1866.
   
• The Market Harborough Workhouse was in this parish.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1841	160
1861	120
1871	127
1881	83
1891	108
1901	106
1911	103
1921	83
2001	171

• The webpage author could find no listing of a school at Thorpe Langton.