LANGHAM, a village and a parish in Oakham district, Rutland. The village stands 1¼ mile E of the boundary with Leicestershire, and 1¾ NW of Oakham r. station; and has a postal letter-box under Oakham. The parish comprises 3,250 acres. Real property, £5,381. Pop., 636. Houses, 146. The land belongs chiefly to the Earl of Gainsborough, Lord Aveland, and E. G. Baker, Esq. Ranksborough Hill was the seat of a Roman settlement, and is now a meet for the Cottesmere hounds. There is a large brewery. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Oakham, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is early decorated English; presents interesting features; and comprises nave, aisles, and transept, with tower and spire. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, a free school, a national school,-and charities £54. Simon de Langham, archbishop of Canterbury, was a native.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))