Langton by Wragby is first mentioned in the Domesday Book. The name is thought to derive from the Old English words 'lang' and 'tun', meaning 'the long village'. Land there was owned by the Bishop of Durham, Gilbert de Gand, Erneis de Burun, Robert the Steward, and Waldin the Engineer. For the Bishop of Durham, 'there are 3 bovates of land (assessed) to the geld. There is land for 6 oxen. The soke belongs to Stratone (Great Sturton), and there are 65 acres of underwood there.' For Gilbert de Gand, 'In Langtone, Gilbert has 140 acres of wood(land) for pannage.' For Erneis de Burun, 'there are 2 bovates of land (assessed) to the geld. There is land for 4 oxen. 1 villein has there 2 oxen in a team, and 21 acres of underwood.' For Robert the Steward, 'there are 1.5 carucates of land (assessed) to the geld. There is land for 4 teams. Robert has 1 team there (in demesne), and 8 sokemen on half a carucate of this land and 4 villeins with 2 teams, and 24 acres of meadow, and 280 acres of wood(land) for pannage.' For Waldin the Engineer, 'there are 4 bovates of land (assessed) to the geld. There is land for 1 team. It is soke(land) belonging to Waragebi (Wragby). 6 sokemen have 1 team there, and 43 acres of underwood.' {1}{2} The Lay Subsidy of 1334 lists the settlement's wealth as £3 8s 3.75d, about average for its wapentake (Wraggoe). {3} The Poll Tax returns of 1377 record the number of taxpayers at this time as 98. {4} The Diocesan Return of 1563 records 34 households in the parish. {5} By the late 17th there were 30 families in the parish. This number had fallen to 27 by the early 18th century. One of these families was noted as being Catholic. {6} Notable residents of the village in 1856 are listed in White's Directory. 287 souls were recorded as being in the parish at this time. {7} Remains of the medieval and later settlement still survive in part around the present village, as seen on aerial photographs examined by the National Mapping Programme. The remains includes earthworks of former medieval croft boundaries (PRN 46610a - TF 1503 7684), a likely medieval water channel (PRN 46610b - TF 1479 7694), and cropmarks of a former road (PRN 46610c - TF 1485 7703). {8}