Description
Langham, a village and a parish in Rutland. The village stands 1 1/2 mile E of the boundary with Leicestershire, and 1 3/4 NW of Oakham station on the M.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Oakham. The parish comprises 2920 acres; population of the civil parish, 619; of the ecclesiastical, with Oakham, Eggleton, and Brooke, 4398. Langham Hall is the chief residence. Banks borough Hill was the seat of a Roman settlement. There is a small brewery. The living is a curacy, annexed together with those of Brooke and Eggleton to the vicarage of Oakham, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church, which dates from about 1230, is a building of stone in the Norman, Early English, and Decorated styles; presents interesting features, and comprises chancel, nave, aisles, and transept, with tower and spire. There are also Baptist and Methodist chapels, an institute with library and reading-room, and some small charities. Simon de Langham, cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury, 1366-68, was a native.
We have transcribed the Rutland pages from Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1929, and you can view the entry for Langham which contains further infomation and lists of residents etc.
