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English: East Langton, Leicestershire The large castellated water tower belongs to East Langton Grange. Text from :

J M Lee and R A McKinley, 'Church Langton', in A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, Gartree Hundred (London, 1964), pp. 193-213. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5/pp193-213 [accessed 15 February 2020].


East Langton Grange, on the west side of the village, was largely rebuilt by the present owner, Lt.-Col. J. D. Hignett, in a neo-Georgian style in 1934–5. (fn. 15) Parts remain from the previous house which belonged to J. W. Logan (d. 1925), M.P. for the Market Harborough division of Leicestershire, who built the present garden wall and large castellated water-tower fronting upon the street. In the spring of 1876 Logan, a railway contractor, came to East Langton in order to supervise the building of the L.N.W.R. lines from Newark through John o'Gaunt to Leicester and through Hallaton to Market Harborough. (fn. 16) The Grange was then a small country house which in 1854 had been the residence of Mrs. Mary Warner (fn. 17) and later, for a few years before 1860, of the Earl of Morton (d. 1884), probably as a hunting box. (fn. 18) During the sixties Arthur G. Cochrane lived there. (fn. 19) Logan made many alterations and stayed there for the rest of his life. Probably in the early nineties, he built the riding school and stables which stand in the middle of the village. At the south end of the riding school he erected, in 1894, the former 'village hall', a brick and rough-cast building with moulded brick 'Tudor' ornament. It was used first, apparently, as a private theatre for his daughters and then as a meeting-place for the village. (fn. 20) The hall remained part of the Grange estate, and during the Second World War Lt.-Col. Hignett converted it into two flats and an estate workshop. In 1898 Logan erected a cottage home for the children of men permanently injured on public works, with preference for the employees of Logan & Hemingway. (fn. 21) The cottage home is now a private house called Dean Cottage. Logan was also a patron of 'country house cricket', (fn. 22) and began the present cricket field on the north side of the village.
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