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Aerial View of Langold, 1925

Langold
Nottinghamshire
England

Langold was built to provide housing for the miners of Firbeck Colliery between 1923 and 1927 with Langold Lakes Country Park being situated on the south-western edge of the village. The bulk of the village originated from the colliery construction period. Sir Archibald Wollaston White sold the Langold estate to Thomas Place of Northallerton in early 1927, once coal had been found, and Place sold it to the Firbeck Colliery Company in July 1927. Construction of housing began to the west of the main road, with 128 houses completed and occupied by April 1925. In less than five years, a village consisting of 850 houses, six shops and a school had been built to the north of the pit to house the workers, many of whom were brought from the coal mining areas of the North East of England.

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