Langton by Spilsby
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Langton by Spilsby, sometimes called Langton by Partney, is a village and civil parish
Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the town of Spilsby
Spilsby
Spilsby is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire. England. The town is situated adjacent to the main A16 Trunk Road at the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds north of the Fenlands, east of the county town of Lincoln, north east of Boston and north west from Skegness.The town has...

, Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England. The civil parish includes the hamlet of Sutterby
Sutterby
Sutterby is a hamlet in Lincolnshire, England not far from the small town of Horncastle in the parish of Langton by Spilsby.The first recorded mention of Sutterby is in the Domesday Book; the "-by" at the end of its name indicates this place may originally have been a Viking settlement .In 1219...

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The parish church is a grade I listed building, and is dedicated to Saint Peter
Saint Peter
Saint Peter or Simon Peter was an early Christian leader, who is featured prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. The son of John or of Jonah and from the village of Bethsaida in the province of Galilee, his brother Andrew was also an apostle...

 and Saint Paul and was built in 1725 of red brick after the previous church of Saint Peter burned down.
The Round House is a grade II listed cottage ornee dating from the early 19th century, and is thatched, and built of whitewashed mud and stud. English Heritage defines cottage ornee as "a rustic building of picturesque design".

The Old Inn is also grade II listed, and dates from the early 19th century, of whitewashed red brick. Formerly a public house
Public house
A public house, informally known as a pub, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. There are approximately 53,500 public houses in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller...

 it is now a private cottage.

Langton Hall was destroyed by fire in 1405 and rebuilt in the 1550s.
The Elizabethan manor lasted until about 1817 when it too was destroyed by fire. Bennet Rothes Langton erected the last Langton Hall to the designs of James Fowler
James Fowler (architect)
James Fowler JP, FRIBA, known as “Fowler of Louth”, was an English ecclesiastical architect of the Victorian Age chiefly associated with the restoration and renovation of churches....

 in 1866-7, built of brick with stone dressings in the Elizabethan
Elizabethan architecture
Elizabethan architecture is the term given to early Renaissance architecture in England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Historically, the period corresponds to the Cinquecento in Italy, the Early Renaissance in France, and the Plateresque style in Spain...

style. It was demolished about 1960.
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