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| {{Infobox town
| | #REDIRECT [[Lingen]] |
| |name=Lingen
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| |county=Herefordshire
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| |picture=Timber frame cottages at Lingen - geograph.org.uk - 905424.jpg
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| |picture caption=Lingen
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| |os grid ref=SO365670
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| |latitude=52.298
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| |longitude=-2.9315
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| |population=152
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| |census year=2011
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| |post town=Bucknell
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| |postcode=SY7
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| |dialling code=01544
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| |LG district=Herefordshire
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| |constituency=North Herefordshire
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| }}
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| '''Lingen''' is a village sitting amongst the wooded hills of [[Herefordshire]], in the north-west corner of the county two miles from the border with [[Radnorshire]] (marked by the [[River Lugg]]) and three from the larger village of [[Wigmore, Herefordshire|Wigmore]].
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| It is a small place, and as the censuses reveal, the village population has been remarkably stable for two hundred years. The population was recorded as 247 at the first census, in 1801, and 215 in 2001.
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| The village is on the [[Limebrook]], which runs into the [[River Lugg]] south of the village.
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| Lingen parish includes the hamlets of [[Deerfold]], [[Limebrook]], [[Birtley, Herefordshire|Birtley]] and [[Willey, Herefordshire|Willey]].
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| The village today has one public house – the Royal George<ref>[http://whatpub.com/pubs/HFD/2476/royal-george-lingen CAMRA's whatpub.com] Royal George, Lingen</ref> – and a sub-post office.<ref>[http://www.lingen.org.uk/Pages/PostOfficeSub.aspx Lingen Village]: Post Office</ref>
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| ==Name==
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| The origin of the village's name is uncertain. In Herefordshire both names of Welsh and English origin are commonplace. A suggestion favoured locally derives the name 'Ling' from an Old Welsh word suggesting ''Place of sparkling water''. ''Ling'' is also an old word for 'heather' and may be an alternative derivation. The Institute for Name Studies speculates that the name was originally that of a river.<ref>{{cite web | author=Institute for Name Studies| title=A Key to English Place-Names |url=http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/kepn/detailpop.php?placeno=5586| accessdate=15 July 2009 }}</ref>
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| ==History==
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| ===Pre-history===
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| The village lies at the southern edge of the ancient ice sheet and was sandwiched between two large post-glacial lakes; one centred on [[Presteigne]], the other known to geologists as 'Wigmore Glacial Lake'.<ref> Evans, D.J.A., Clark, C.D. and Mitchell, W.A.: '[http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/915/1/clarkcd2.pdf The last British Ice Sheet: A review of the evidence utilised in the compilation of the Glacial Map of Britain]' (2005) (Iniversity of Sheffield)</ref><ref>[http://www.earthheritagetrust.org/pub/publications/explore-trail-guides/guide-descriptions-explore-trail-guides/19-wigmore-glacial-lake/ Earth Heritage Trust Explore Guides]</ref>
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| ===Early history===
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| [[File:Lingen Castle - geograph.org.uk - 905449.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Lingen Castle]]
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| Occupied since at least the Middle Ages; there is evidence of mediæval strip lynchets on a hillside near the village.<ref>[http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/conMediaFile.3948 Strip lynchets near Lingen (NMR 15071/24) : English Heritage : English Heritage<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The manor is mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]].<ref>[http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/herefordshire.html The Domesday Book Online – Herefordshire Home<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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| The village is close to the substantial Mortimer castle at [[Wigmore Castle|Wigmore]] and there is evidence of an early motte and bailey castle in the village. It has not been excavated but the former presence of a stone keep has been suggested, as well as a 12th-century gate-house, with a curtain wall around the bailey.
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| The manorial lordship was held by the Lingen family until the 17th century.
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| ===Limebrook Priory===
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| Located just south of the village centre a nunnery was founded before the reign of Richard I, either by Ralph de Lingen or one of the Mortimers. There is some confusion as to the order to which it belonged, but in the time of Bishop Booth, 1516–35, it was tenanted by Augustinian nuns and subsisted until the dissolution of the monasteries.
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| The remains now consist of a single ruined building.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk/hsmr/db.php?SF=1&parish_1=LINGEN|title=Herefordshire County Council |accessdate=18 September 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/image_galleries/restoration_2006_gallery.shtml?31 |title=Photograph of the ruins |accessdate=18 September 2007}}</ref>
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| ===Victorian===
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| In 1868 the village was described thus:
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| {{cquote|LINGEN, a parish in the hundred of Wigmore, county Hereford, 4 miles N.E. of [[Presteigne|Presteign]], its post town, and 3 from Wigmore. It is a small village, situated on a branch of the river Lug, and on the road leading from Leintwardine to Presteign. Near the village are the ruins of a castle. The soil is various, but generally fertile. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Hereford, value £70, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, has a small belfry containing one bell. The charities produce about £5 10s. per annum. There is a small day-school. John Edwards, Esq., is lord of the manor.}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Lingen/index.html|title=''The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland''|accessdate=18 September 2007}}</ref>
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| ==Churches==
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| ===St Michael and All Angels Church===
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| The [[Church of England]] parish church is St Michael and All Angels. It is a fine, stone-built church<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/lingen-st-michael-all-angels|title=A Church near You|accessdate=5 January 2010}}</ref> which dates back to the 13th century, when it was buit in its original form. The current building was substantially repaired in the 19th century and the bell tower turret has attractive wooden shingles. It was re-dedicated on 22 April 1891 by the [[Diocese of Hereford|Bishop of Hereford]].
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| ===Methodist Chapel===
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| The chapel opened on 26 June 1877 and remains open to this day.
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| ==Outside links==
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| {{commons|Lingen, Herefordshire}}
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| *{{genuki|Lingen}}
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| *[http://www.lingen.org.uk Lingen Village]
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| *[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/lingen-st-michael-all-angels St Michael and All Angels Church]
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| *[https://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_name=Mortimer+Trail The Mortimer Trail] on LDWA
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| *[https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/1757/lingen_circular_walk.pdf Lingen Circualr Walk] – Active Herefordshire
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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