Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• foresta de Lang(e)strod(e) c.1190 Fount 1201 1202,1227 FF 1227 Percy 1316 Pat

• Lang(e)strod(e) in Craven 1305 ib

• foresta Lang(e)stroth(e), chacea de Lang(e)stroth(e) 1198 Fount 1259 YI 1294 Percy 1295 BltComp25 1598 Skp

• Lang(e)strot 1223 Pat

• Langestrohe 1213 Ch 1349

• Lang(e)strogh(e) 1338 Furn 1540 MinAcct

• Langestroher c.1220 Percy

• Langestrother 1266 Percy 1285 KI 1355 FF

• Langstrother 1434 Pat

• Langstorough 1461 Pat

• Langstruath 1462 Pat

• Langsterueth 1465 ib

• Langstroth(e) Dale 1462 Pat 1608 FF 1653 WillS

Etymology

'The long stretch of marshy ground overgrown with brushwood', v. lang , strōd , and dæl 'valley'. The forms with -stro (t )her arise from the influence of the OE derivative strōðer which meant much the same, whilst those with -stro (g )he , etc. are due to AN  treatment of -th - (cf. High Melton i, 76supra ). The name refers more particularly to the long deep valley of the R. Wharfe between Buckden and Beckermonds, but the medieval chase or hunting forest was probably coterminous with the extensive township of Buckden.