Lower Langford
village in Somerset, England, UK
Lower Langford is a village within the civil parishes of Churchill and Burrington in the unitary authority of North Somerset, England. It is located on the western edge of the Mendip Hills about 8 miles (13 kilometres) east of Weston-super-Mare. It was a village built around the estate of Sidney Hill who was the original inhabitant of the village. The estate is now the Bristol Veterinary School of the University of Bristol.
School
Churchill C.E.V.C. Primary School is the primary school serving both Churchill and Langford. It has around 200 pupils ages 4 to 11. The school was newly built in 2002 after relocating from its former location at Ladymead Lane. Churchill Community Foundation School and Sixth Form Centre is the state-run secondary school and specialist Arts College serving the villages of North Somerset. It has around 1,540 students between the ages of 11 and 18 and is located in the adjacent village of Churchill.
Amenities
The village has one pub, The Langford Inn.
“Lower Langford” enters the record as village in Somerset, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lower, Langford and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6693565. Authority coordinates are 51.340, -2.782. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lower Langford” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.