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Steeple Langford
Steeple Langford is a village and civil parish on the River Wylye in the English county of Wiltshire, northwest of Wilton. It has also been called Great Langford or Langford Magna.
The parish contains two hamlets on the other (south) side of the river: Hanging Langford and Little Langford (formerly a separate civil parish). To the west, along the road from Salisbury, is the settlement of Bathampton.
Steeple Langford contains thatched cottages and has several lakes created by the flooding of worked-out gravel pits.〔Michael Billett, ''Thatching and Thatched Buildings'' (2nd edition, 1988), p. 156〕
==Name==
There is little doubt that the element 'Langford' refers to a ford over the River Wylye, around which the village grew up. The name 'Steeple Langford' has generally predominated over the alternative of 'Great Langford', and it has long been presumed (for instance, by William Cobbett) that the first element of this name refers to an architectural steeple. However, early forms of the name include 'Stapel', 'Steppul', and 'Staple' Langford, and one writer on the origin of the place-name has suggested that
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