Langworth

Langworth
Langworth
 Langworth shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid referenceTF0624076449
   – London 125 mi (201 km)  S
DistrictWest Lindsey
Shire countyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Lincoln
Postcode district LN3
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK ParliamentGainsborough
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Coordinates: 53°16′28″N 0°24′30″W / 53.274391°N 0.408270°W / 53.274391; -0.408270

Langworth is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 6 miles (10 km) north-east from the city and county town of Lincoln, and on the A158 road Lincoln to Skegness road. The population is included in the civil parish of Barlings.

Community

The village has one public house and two garages.

Langworth railway station, on the Great Central Railway Grimsby to Lincoln line, has closed, but the line still runs through the village, crossing the A158.

Langworth's Boulters Pimary School closed in 1989, after which its pupils transferred to the newly built Ellison Boulters School in neighbouring Scothern.

The village is in an area prone to flooding. The Environment Agency gives flood warnings for the Barlings Eau waterway, which runs just north-west of the village.[1] Particularly extensive flooding occurred in 2007.

Barlings Lane, Langworth

Church

Langworth church is dedicated to St Hugh.[2] The church is a 1960-62 rebuilding, by Haynes and Johnson of Brigg, of the Walmsgate Hall chapel, itself built in 1901. The material from the original chapel couldn't be used although the previous footprint was kept, and lengthened. Retained from the earlier chapel was the barrel vault roof construction, the surrounds to the windows, and sliding doors with their handles at the west end. Also the original font, organ, altar canopy and bronze lamps, and a plaque to Dallas-Yorke, son of Thomas Yorke, to whom the chapel was a memorial, remain. Plaster decoration, part Art Nouveau, part Pre-Raphaelite style, was lost in the rebuilding; Pevsner's view was that with the decoration "the chapel was one of the outstanding ensembles in England of the style of 1900".[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Map of Langworth, Lincolnshire; Environment-agency.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2012
  2. ↑ "Langworth Parish Council"; Parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2012
  3. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire pp. 293, 294; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press. ISBN 0300096208
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