Langham
LANGHAM is a large parish and village, on the Oakham and Melton Mowbray road and the Leicestershire border, 2 miles north-west from Oakham station on the Midland section of the London, Midland and Scottish railway and 8 south-west from Melton Mowbray, in the Oakham Soke hundred, union and county court district of Oakham, rural deanery of Rutland (first portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. The church of SS. Peter and Paul, erected about 1235, is an edifice of stone in the Norman, Early English and Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south transept, aisles, south porch and a western tower with elegant spire, containing a clock and 6 bells : both nave and isles are embattled : the chancel retains a semi-circular headed piscina, and on the north side an aumbry : the oak reredos and organ were presented in 1895 by Lieut.-Col. Sir H. C. Jervoise bart. and the altar table was given in the same year by Mr. and Mrs. Hamlyn, of Clovelly, and the stained east window in 1907 by Mrs. Hamlyn: in the transept is a memorial window to Henry John Rudkin, d. 16 March, 1866, erected by Augusta, his widow: the church was thoroughly restored in 1876 at a cost of £3,198, and reopened 2nd May, 1878, when a new clock was given by the vicar: in 1909 a memorial window was inserted in the south transept to Sir H.C. Jervoise, 4th bart. (d. 1908): the north transept was removed in the last century: there are 480 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a vicarage, net, yearly value £320, including 2 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough, and held since 1925 by the Rev. William Francis Carlile Hargreaves M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge. There is a Baptist chapel, erected in 1854, with 200 sittings and an attached cemetery. The Langham Institute was established in 1884, and in 1890 a new and larger reading room was added, the cost being defrayed by public subscription; the reading room is provided with the leading daily and weekly papers and there is a small library, chiefly given by the Earl of Gainsborough. The charities include a house and 16 acres of land at Bayton, Northamptonshire, purchased in 1682 with £111 5s. left by various donors, and the rent of which, about £30 yearly, after deducting a small sum for repairs, is distributed among the poor; Thomas Sewell and Mary Harris left £30, which was used to enclose the land mentioned above; Elizabeth Chamberlain, in 1685, left £50 10s. appropriated to the purchase of 6 acres of land at Billesdon; and Francis Clark left £10 yearly, payable by the Tallow Chandlers' Company in London, the proceeds to be given to the poor. Simon de Langham, cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury 1366-8, sometime abbot of Westminster, and from 1362 to 1366 bishop of Ely, is said to have been born here in 1310; his elevation to the Cardinalate, however, was highly displeasing to Edward III. who thereupon seized the temporalities of the see, and the archbishop, retiring to the papal court at Avignon, died abroad 22 July, 1370, but his remains were conveyed to England and interred in Westminster Abbey, to which he had been a munificent benefactor. There is a brewery, erected in 1858 and belonging to Mr. G. Kenneth F. Ruddle. The trustees of the Earl of Gainsborough (who is a minor) are lords of the manor, and Owen H. Smith esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is red light sand, but varies in different parts of the parish. The chief crops are barley, oats, beans, peas and roots and some land in pasture. The area is 2,920 acres ; the population in 1921 was 558.
Sexton, Thomas Rowett.
Ranksborough Hill, 1½ miles north-west, was the site of a Roman station, and is now celebrated as a good fox cover.
Post, M.O. & T.O. & T. E. D. Office. Letters through Oakham
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
(For T N's see general list of Private Residents at end of book.)
Allen Harold
Fitzroy Capt. Charles, Manor house
Green Robert, Southfield
Hargreaves Rev. William Francis, Cariile M.A. [vicar], Vicarage
Londonderry Marquess of K.G., P.C., M.V.O. Ranksborough; & Londonderry house, 19 Park lane w 1 & Carlton, Marlborough & Turf clubs, London
Quickfall Mrs
Ruddle G. Kenneth F. Harewood house
Smith Owen Hugh, The Old hall & Langham house
Vesey W. T
Wright Dennis, Bungalow
COMMERCIAL.
Marked thus ° farm 150 acres or over.
Allbones Saml. carter
Almond Charles, farmer
Clark Jn. S. carpntr
Cox Charles, grazier
Crane William Edward, blacksmith
Davie George, Black Horse P.H
Edgson Wm. grazier
Ellingworth Geo. fried fish dlr
Faulks John, boot maker
Harris Philip, grazier
Hill Cecil James, Wheatsheaf inn
Hollingshed Edgar, farmer
Hubbard Herbert, grazier
Hubbard William, grazier
Isaac Alice (Mrs.), stationer & post office
Langham Institute (Horace Cousins, sec.)
Mantle Edwin & Martha (Miss), bakers
Mantle Matthias Rt. grazier
Maydwell Dennis, builder
Minor Harry, genl. dlr
Munday T. W. butcher
Nourish Ebenezer, threshing machine proprietor & miller
Papworth Cecil P. pork pie mfr
Revell Robert, dairyman
Rowett Tom, grocer
Royce William Porter, grazier
Ruddle G. Kenneth F. brewer & wine & spirit merchant, Langham brewery. T N Langham 4 Rudkin Wm. farmer
Shuttlewood William Sewell, antique dealer
Simmons George, Noel Arms inn
Smith Jn. Wm. Stafford, farmer
Smith William Henry, grazier
°Squires Hy. Cyril, farmer, The Limes
Stacey Owen, grocer
Steel Reuben, horse breaker
Tidd David, grocer
Walker John, fanner
Weston George, grazier
Williamson Christphr. grazier
Williamson Edgar, grazier
Williamson Fred, grazier
Williamson William, farmer