Langdon, Kent
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 St Augustine's Parish Church, Langdon |
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| Population | 558 (2011) |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Dover |
| Dialling code | 01304 |
| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
Langdon is a village near Dover in Kent, England. It was the site of West Langdon Abbey which was dissolved in 1535. Langdon is also more commonly referred to as East Langdon.
In the 1870s, Langdon was described as:
LANGDON (EAST), a village and a parish in Dover district, Kent. The village stands near the Deal and Dover railway, 3½ miles NNE of Dover. The parish contains also the hamlet of Marten; and its post-town is Dover. Acres, 1,065. Real property, £2,228. Pop., 362. Houses, 72. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £126. * Patron, the Earl of Guilford. The church comprises nave, small aisle, and chancel.
The word Langdon comes from the original Old English meaning, 'Long Down' or 'Long Hill'. The name 'Langdon' is an Anglo-Saxon origin and one of the oldest names recorded. It is a common surname, as well as a locational name from places in Devon, Dorset, Warwickshire, Essex and Kent. However, East and West Langdon in Kent is the earliest recorded use of the place name Langdon, at the time of the 861 Saxon Charters the place was recorded as "Langandune". The original meaning of Langdon suggests that the parish lies along a 'long hill' or 'long down' between Deal and Whitfield.
In the west of Langdon, the remains of the historical Langdon Abbey lie. Founded in 1198 by Sir William de Auberville of Westhangerand and dissolved in 1535.
Historic England describes how the Premonstratensian abbey remains:
'The abbey buildings survive partly as ruins incorporated within a later house, Listed Grade II*, and also within the Grade II Listed, north eastern wall of a 19th century agricultural barn. Elsewhere, the abbey survives in buried form and as earthworks.'
Langdon is a civil parish as well as a village, the parish consists of the four hamlets:- East Langdon, West Langdon, Martin and Martin Mill, the population of Langdon therefore includes these hamlets. Langdon is located 4.6 miles north east of Dover.
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