{"id":102,"date":"2012-08-02T18:08:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T18:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lowerswalechurches.org.uk\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:02:20","slug":"langton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lowerswalechurches.org.uk\/?page_id=102","title":{"rendered":"St Wilfrid’s, Langton-on-Swale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Rector:
\nRev’d Jenni Lane\u00a0 –\u00a0 01609 631122
\n<\/span>email:\u00a0 jennilane2013@btinternet.com<\/span><\/h3>\n

Associate Minister:<\/strong>
\nPaul Chubb
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant Churchwarden:
\nGillian Wilson\u00a0 \u00a0 Tel: 01609 748276
\ngewilsonlangton@gmail.com<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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St Wilfrid’s serves the villages of Great Langton and Little Langton and\u00a0 is\u00a0\u00a0situated between them. It is not known when the first church was built at Langton.\u00a0 This part of the country suffered much from the raids and ravages of the Danes.\u00a0 In the Domesday Book of 1086 the parish of Langton is described as having been laid waste.\u00a0 The present church stands stands by itself in the fields, reached by a grass track from the road along the east bank of the Swale.\u00a0 The large churchyard slopes away to the beck on the south.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Standing at the church door there is not a single human habitation to be seen.\u00a0 Only the calling of the birds can be heard and sometimes the bleating of sheep or an occasional distant car or tractor.\u00a0 It is one of the most peaceful places imaginable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This isolated position has given rise to many speculations.\u00a0 It is sometimes supposed that an original village nearby was abandoned and destroyed after the Black Death in the fourteenth century.\u00a0 Be that as it may, the church stands exactly halfway between the two \u2018townships\u2019 which it serves, Great Langton and Little Langton.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Services at St Wilfrid\u2019s are held monthly, usually on the third Sunday of the month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For details of exact dates and times, please follow this link<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n