Langton Long Blandford

Human settlement in England

Dorset

Dorset

Region

South West

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townBlandford ForumPostcode districtDT11PoliceDorsetFire Dorset and Wiltshire Ambulance South Western UK Parliament

North Dorset

List of places: UK; England; Dorset

50°51′10″N 2°08′45″W / 50.8528°N 2.1457°W / 50.8528; -2.1457

Langton Long, Blandford is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is sited by the River Stour, approximately 3⁄4 mile (1.2 kilometres) southeast of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 120.^[1]

Forming the southeastern line of the parish boundary is an old track linking prehistoric Buzbury Rings, on nearby Keyneston Hill, to a ford over the river.^[2]^[3]

St Leonards farmhouse used to house a leper hospital.^[2]

The parish church was rebuilt in 1862.^[2]

References

^ "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c North Dorset District Council (c. 1983). North Dorset Official District Guide. Home Publishing Co. Ltd. p. 37.
^ Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale 'Pathfinder' map, sheet ST 80/90 (Blandford Forum), 1972