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Langsett
Location within South Yorkshire
Population222 (2011)
Civil parish
  • Langsett
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Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SHEFFIELD
Postcode district S36
Dialling code 01226
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53°30′N1°41′W / 53.50°N 1.68°W / 53.50; -1.68

Langsett is a village and civil parish near Barnsley in South Yorkshire. It lies near the southern edge of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and on the edge of the Peak District National Park. At the 2001 census it had a population of 161, [1] increasing to 222 at the 2011 Census. [2]

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In the early Medieval period, Langsett was known as Penisale. It held a royal charter entitling it to hold a weekly market on Tuesdays and an annual three-day fair, but these were held somewhere in the country rather than in the village itself. The market charter was later used to start a market in Penistone. [3]

A tradition associates the location of Penisale market with a cross near the junction of Cross Lane and Hartcliffe Road. This theory is rejected by Neville T. Sharpe, who holds that this was a wayside cross used as a guide by travellers. [4]

In chronostratigraphy, the British sub-stage of the Carboniferous period, the 'Langsettian' derives its name from a study of geological exposures in the banks of the Little Don River near Langsett. [5]

The Peak District Boundary Walk runs through the village. [6]

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References

  1. Census 2001 Archived 2016-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  3. Hey, David (2003). Medieval South Yorkshire. Landmark Publishing Ltd. ISBN   1843060809.
  4. Sharpe, Neville T. (2002). Crosses of the Peak District. Landmark Collectors Library. ISBN   1843060442.
  5. Cleal, C.J., Thomas, B.A., 1996 British Upper Carboniferous Stratigraphy Vol 11 of the Geological Conservation Review series
  6. McCloy, Andrew (2017). Peak District Boundary Walk: 190 Miles Around the Edge of the National Park. Friends of the Peak District. ISBN   978-1909461536.

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