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LANGTOFT, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in Driffield district, E. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the Wolds, 6½ miles N by W of Driffield r. station; and has a post-office under Driffield.—The township comprises 3,140 acres. Real property, £3,335. Pop., 688. Houses, 142.—The parish contains also the township of Cottam, and comprises 5,680 acres. Real property, £5,607. Pop., 783. Houses, 151. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Sir John Gibbons. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Cottam, in the diocese of York. Value, £354.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church has a tower of the 13th century, and a nave, a chancel, and a porch of much later date; was restored in 1862; and contains an ancient font and sedilia. There are a church at Cottam, chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school. Peter de Langtoft, the monkish poet and historian of the 14th century, was a native.—The sub-district contains also six other parishes and part of another. Acres, 35,736. Pop., 4,259. Houses, 832.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Langtoft CP/AP Langtoft SubD Driffield RegD/PLU East Riding Riding Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Langtoft |
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