Langworth
| Langworth | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) St Hugh, Langworth | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF062764 |
| Location: | 53°16’28"N, 0°24’30"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Lincoln |
| Postcode: | LN3 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Gainsborough |
Langworth is a small village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is six miles north-east of the county town, the City of Lincoln, on the A158 Lincoln to Skegness road.
Church
Langworth's parish church, St Hugh,[1] was built in 1960–62 by Haynes and Johnson of Brigg, replacing the earlier Walmsgate Hall Chapel, itself built in 1901. The material from the original chapel could not be used although the previous footprint was kept, and lengthened.
Retained from the earlier chapel were 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".[2]
About the village
The village has two public houses and two garages.
There was once a village store with a full time post office, until the 2008/2009 post office closures. A local campaign to keep it open failed to save the post office.[3] There is now a post office outreach service open in the Langworth memorial hall, three times a week.[4]
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.
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.[5] Particularly extensive flooding occurred in 2007.[citation needed]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Langworth) |
References
- ↑ Langworth Parish Council
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0
- ↑ "Patrick Barkham, Jon Henley and Martin Wainwright on the closure of post offices | UK news | The Guardian". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/apr/09/post.publicservices. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- ↑ "Langworth Parish Council". Langworth Parish Council. http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/LangworthGroup/section.asp?docId=83835. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- ↑ "Map of Langworth, Lincolnshire; Environment-agency.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2012
