Langtoft is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Yorkshire, is a local government district with unitary authority status, and a ceremonial county of England. For ceremonial purposes the county also includes the city of Kingston upon Hull, which is a separate unitary authority...

, England

England

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. Situated 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Driffield

Driffield

Driffield, also known as Great Driffield, is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The civil parish is formed by the town of Driffield and the village of Little Driffield....

 town centre and lying on the B1249 between Driffield

Driffield

Driffield, also known as Great Driffield, is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The civil parish is formed by the town of Driffield and the village of Little Driffield....

 and Foxholes

Foxholes, North Yorkshire

Foxholes is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England.About Foxholes...

.

According to the 2001 UK census

United Kingdom Census 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....

, Langtoft parish had a population of 457.

Toponymy

Old Norse lang or Old English lång 'long' and Old Norse topt 'site of a house'. Etymological Homonymy with Langtoft, Lincolnshire

Langtoft, Lincolnshire

Langtoft is a village and civil parish in Lincolnshire on the A15 road, about ten miles north of Peterborough and about eight miles east of Stamford, Lincolnshire on the edge of The Fens....

 and Lanquetot

Lanquetot

Lanquetot is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:A farming village in the Pays de Caux, some northeast of Le Havre, at the junction of the D9015, D30 and D109 roads.-Heraldry:...

 (Normandy

Normandy

Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:...

, Languetot 12th century).

History

The chronicler Pierre de Langtoft took his name from the village. Also resident in the village during the same era was Margaret De Langtoft, who later became one of the five nuns that formed the Sisterhood of Rosedale Priory.

In the centre of the village is the village green which used to be pond. Some people still refer to this site as the pond. There is a monument to the people of the village that died in the two wars.

The village itself was flooded in 1657 and 1892. A plaque can be found commemorating the floods on the corner of Back Street and Front street that reads:
Minor flooding can be seen on Front Street during heavy rain and in 2007 the 'pond' flooded causing the road to be closed.

Facilities

There is a village pub, The Ship Inn. The village shop shut in 2007 and the post office

Post office

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 in 2004. Several other small businesses are, however, present and thriving in the village. Broadband

Broadband

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 is available after a scheme to connect all Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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 villages by Yorkshire Forward

Yorkshire Forward

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. Broadband is also available over WiFi

WIFI

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 using Wireless mesh network

Wireless mesh network

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 in a project started before ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

Asymmetric digital subscriber line is a type of digital subscriber line technology, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide. It does this by utilizing frequencies that are not used by a voice...

was made available. There is also a primary school although this recently announced the closure of the junior years which means that children will now catch the school bus to Driffield.

The village has grown over the past few years with many new houses being built. There is a joke that Langtoft is the village with "a house in every garden" reflecting the fact that a lot of homeowners' land has been sold to developers who have then built on it.