Langton Herring is a village in the county of Dorset in south-west England. It lies within the West Dorset administrative district of the county, about five miles north-west of the coastal resort town of Weymouth. It is "prudently set on a ridge above the Fleet", the Fleet being a brackish lagoon behind Chesil Beach. In the 2001 Census the village had a population of 147.
The name of the village comes from the Old English 'Lang + tun' meaning 'long farmstead or estate' with the 13th Century 'Harang' family affix, from their time as Lords of the Manor. Literature in the church records that all the men of Langton Herring returned from both World Wars, making it one of only a handful of doubly Thankful Villages in the country, and the only village in Dorset to be spared fatalities in the Great War.
Just over half a mile to the east of the village, by the B3157 road, is Langton Cross, a medieval stone monolith, which is missing the top arm.
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Famous quotes containing the word herring:
“Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.”
—William A. Drake (1900–1965)