Steeple Langford, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Langford, Steeple, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands on the river Wylye, 2 miles from Wylye station on the G.W.R., and 6 NW of'Wilton. It has a post office under Bath; money order and telegraph office, Wylye. The parish includes the tithing of Hanging Longford, and comprises 3988 acres; population, 467. A well-preserved British camp, one of the best in England, is on a hill called Yarnborough Castle. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £420 with residence. Patrons, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church is ancient but good, was well restored in 1875, and contains a rich altar-tomb to the Mompessons.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Church Records

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Steeple Langford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Langford, Steeple, or Great Langford (All Saints))

Maps

Online maps of Steeple Langford are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online:

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle