Langworth is a small village in the

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, England. It is situated north-east from the city and

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, and on the

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Lincoln to

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road. It is in the

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Barlings Barlings and Low Barlings are two small hamlets lying south off the A158 road at Langworth, about east of Lincoln in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Low Barlings is a scattered collection of homes, situated along a trackway ...

Community

The village has one

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and two garages. Langworth railway station, on the

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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

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gives flood warnings for the

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waterway, which runs just north-west of the village. Particularly extensive flooding occurred in 2007. Barlings Lane - geograph

School Langworth's Boulters

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closed in 1989, after which its pupils transferred to the newly built Ellison Boulters School in neighbouring

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. Church Langworth church is dedicated to St Hugh. The church is a 1960–62 rebuilding, by Haynes and Johnson of

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, 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. Retained from the earlier chapel was the

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roof construction, the surrounds to the windows, and sliding doors with their handles at the west end. Also the original

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, organ, altar canopy and bronze lamps, and a

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to Dallas-Yorke, son of Thomas Yorke, to whom the chapel was a memorial, remain. Plaster decoration, part

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, part

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style, 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, this included a web campaign (www.savelangworthpostoffice.co.uk no longer online) and direct action including a protest in front of the

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and a pedestrian crossing protest which caused long tailbacks on the A158. This all failed and

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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.

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* {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire West Lindsey District