Langton by Wragby explained

Static Image Name:St.Giles' church, Langton-by-Wragby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 94476.jpg
Static Image Caption:St Giles' Church, Langton by Wragby
Country:England
Official Name:Langton by Wragby
Coordinates:53.278°N -0.281°W
Shire District:East Lindsey
Shire County:Lincolnshire
Region:East Midlands
Constituency Westminster:Gainsborough
Post Town:Market Rasen
Postcode District:LN8
Postcode Area:LN
Os Grid Reference:TF147770
London Distance Mi:125
London Direction:S

Langton by Wragby is a small village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies approximately 1miles south-east from Wragby, on the A158 Horncastle road.

Langton Wood is a small, previously extra-parochial area, now included in the parish.[1]

The church is dedicated to St Giles, and is of 14th-century origin, although it was rebuilt in 1866. It is a Grade II listed building.[2] [3]

Langton Court is the former vicarage, now a house, built in the middle of the 18th century with some 19th-century additions. It is a Grade II listed building.[4] [5]

The early 13th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton, was the son of Henry Langton of Langton by Wragby, and may have been born in a moated farmhouse west of the church.[6]

The "Stephen Langton Trail" devised to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta, starts in Langton by Wragby and leads to Lincoln, where there is an original copy of the charter.[7]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/LangtonbyWragby "Langton by Wragby"
  2. Web site: St Giles' Church, Langton by Wragby. Lincolnshire Archives. 10 May 2011.
  3. Web site: Church of St Giles, Langton By Wragby. British Listed Buildings. 10 May 2011.
  4. Web site: Langton Court, Langton by Wragby. Lincolnshire Archives. 10 May 2011.
  5. Web site: Langton Court, Langton By Wragby. British Listed Buildings. 10 May 2011.
  6. Holdsworth, Christopher: Stephen Langton, Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
  7. https://ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_name=Stephen+Langton+Trail "Stephen Langton Trail", The Long Distance Walkers Association