Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Langetone 1086 DB 1212 RBE 1277 Hastings

• Langetona Ric1 c.1245 AD 1278 ChronPetr

• Langetun 1189 Ch 1332

• Langeton' c.1130 LeicSurv 1176 P 1382 Peake 1398 Fine 1465 MktHPR 1472 Peake

• Langgeton' p.1250 Laz 1404 Tax c.1291

• Lagintone (sic) 1086 DB

• Langtone 1086 DB

• Langtun m.12 HCand

• Langtona Hy2 Dugd

• Langton 1402,1411 Cl 1414 Wyg 1439 Peake

• Lankton 1536 Braye

• Lancton 1610 Speed

• Lanckton 1724 LML

• Kirk(e) ~ 1305 Ipm 1315 Peake 1327 Banco 1462 Pat

• Kyrk(e) ~ 1303 Ipm 1315 Peake 1478 1523 MktHPR

• Chirch(e) ~ 1316 FA 1509 LP

• Church(e) ~ 1518 Visit 1535 VE 1610 Speed

• Church Towne 1564 Nichols

Etymology

'The long village or estate', v. lang 1 , tūn . Church Langton is styled Church Towne 1564 Nichols, 'the township with the church'. For the medieval and later affixes, v. kirkja , chirche , churche . A church may have existed here at least as early as the Norman period, since an effigy which is probably of this date is now located in the vestry passage of the present building, the earliest fabric of which is of the late 13th century.Church Langton may well have been the focus of the original Langton which stretched as far as East Langton, now a separate township a half mile to the south-east. Note the township known as East Langton or Church Langton 1846 White, v. East Langton infra .