Langton Herring
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Langton Herring is a village in west Dorset
, England
, situated beside The Fleet Lagoon (see Chesil Beach
), four miles north east of the town of Weymouth.
Roughly six miles North West from the Dorset seaside resort of Weymouth, and within sight of the hilltop stone obelisk memorial erected by public subscription in 1844 in memory of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, a commander at the Battle of Trafalgar, is the small village of Langton Herring. The name of the village comes from the Old English 'Lang + tun' meaning 'long farmstead or estate' with the 13th Century 'Harang' family affix, from their time as Lords of the Manor. The village has a population of 147 , although this is bolstered by a number of holiday cottages. There is a noted pub, the Elm Tree. Literature in the church records that all the men of Langton Herring returned from both World Wars, making it one of only a handful of doubly Thankful Villages
in the country, and the only village in the beautiful County of Dorset to be spared fatalities in the Great War.
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, situated beside The Fleet Lagoon (see Chesil Beach
Chesil Beach
Chesil Beach, sometimes called Chesil Bank, in Dorset, southern England is one of three major shingle structures in Britain. Its toponym is derived from the Old English ceosel or cisel, meaning "gravel" or "shingle"....
), four miles north east of the town of Weymouth.
Roughly six miles North West from the Dorset seaside resort of Weymouth, and within sight of the hilltop stone obelisk memorial erected by public subscription in 1844 in memory of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, a commander at the Battle of Trafalgar, is the small village of Langton Herring. The name of the village comes from the Old English 'Lang + tun' meaning 'long farmstead or estate' with the 13th Century 'Harang' family affix, from their time as Lords of the Manor. The village has a population of 147 , although this is bolstered by a number of holiday cottages. There is a noted pub, the Elm Tree. Literature in the church records that all the men of Langton Herring returned from both World Wars, making it one of only a handful of doubly Thankful Villages
Thankful Villages
Thankful Villages are settlements in both England and Wales from which all their then members of the armed forces survived World War I. The term Thankful Village was popularised by the writer Arthur Mee in the 1930s...
in the country, and the only village in the beautiful County of Dorset to be spared fatalities in the Great War.