Langworth

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title: "Langworth" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-lincolnshire", "west-lindsey-district"] description: "Village in Lincolnshire, England" topic_path: "general/villages-in-lincolnshire" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langworth" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in Lincolnshire, England ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox UK place"]

Field	Value
country	England
official_name	Langworth
coordinates
shire_district	West Lindsey
shire_county	Lincolnshire
region	East Midlands
constituency_westminster	Gainsborough
post_town	Lincoln
postcode_district	LN3
postcode_area	LN
os_grid_reference	TF0624076449
london_distance_mi	125
london_direction	S
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| static_image_name= | static_image_alt= | static_image_caption= | country = England | official_name= Langworth | map_alt= | coordinates = | population= | population_ref= | shire_district= West Lindsey | shire_county = Lincolnshire | region= East Midlands | constituency_westminster= Gainsborough | post_town= Lincoln | postcode_district = LN3 | postcode_area= LN | dial_code= | os_grid_reference= TF0624076449 | london_distance_mi= 125 | london_direction= S Langworth is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 6 mi north-east from the city and county town of Lincoln, and on the A158 Lincoln to Skegness road. It is in the civil parish of Barlings.

Community

The village has one public house and two garages.

The Langworth railway station, on the Great Central Railway Grimsby to Lincoln line, has closed, but the line still runs through the village, crossing the A158.

The village is in an area prone to flooding. The Environment Agency gives flood warnings for the Barlings Eau waterway, which runs just north-west of the village. Particularly extensive flooding occurred in 2007. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Barlings_Lane_-geograph.org.uk-_421214.jpg" caption="Barlings Lane, Langworth"] ::

School

Langworth's Boulters primary school closed in 1989, after which its pupils transferred to the newly built Ellison Boulters School in neighbouring Scothern.

Church

Langworth's church is dedicated to St Hugh. The church is a 1960–62 rebuilding, by Haynes and Johnson of Brigg, of the Walmsgate Hall chapel, itself built in 1901. The material from the original chapel could not be used although the previous footprint was kept, and lengthened. The barrel vault roof construction, the surrounds to the windows, and sliding doors with their handles at the west end was retained from the earlier chapel. The original font, organ, altar canopy and bronze lamps, and a plaque to Dallas-Yorke, son of Thomas Yorke, to whom the chapel was a memorial, remain from the original church. The plaster decoration, a combination of the Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite styles, was lost in the rebuilding; Pevsner's view was that with the decoration "the chapel was one of the outstanding ensembles in England of the style of 1900".

Village store

Langworth had a village store with a full time post office until the 2008/2009 post office closures. The village organised a campaign to keep it open. The campaign included a web campaign (www.savelangworthpostoffice.co.uk, which is no longer online) and direct action, including a protest in front of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and a pedestrian crossing protest, which caused long tailbacks on the A158. The campaign failed to reach its goal and Post office Ltd closed the Langworth branch, resulting in the village store closing.

There is now a post office outreach service open in the Langworth memorial hall three times a week.

References

References

1. [http://maps.environment-agency.gov.uk/wiyby/wiybyController?topic=floodmap&ep=map&lang=_e&x=506010.0&y=376320.0&scale=5&layerGroups=1,&layerGroupToQuery=1&location=Langworth,%20Lincolnshire= "Map of Langworth, Lincolnshire]; Environment-agency.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2012
2. [http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/LangworthGroup/ "Langworth Parish Council"]; Parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2012
3. Pevsner, Nikolaus; [[John Harris (curator). Harris, John]]; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' pp. 293, 294; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press. {{ISBN. 0300096208
4. "Post Office Protest Pictures {{!}} Getty Images". Getty Images.
5. "Patrick Barkham, Jon Henley and Martin Wainwright on the closure of post offices {{!}} UK news".
6. "Langworth Parish Council". Langworth Parish Council.

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