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ID:SDV320784
Title:Langage Energy Centre and Langage Energy Park Environmental Statement: Cultural Heritage
Originator:Merz & McLellan Ltd
Date:1998
Summary:Langehewis was one of 13 lesser Domesday estates in the royal manor of Plympton. In 1086 it belonged to the Bishop of Coutances & was subsequently acqired by Henry de Cultura who granted it to Richard Pincerne. It then passed by 1291 to Plympton Priory. The Priory connection was maintained in the 19C field names of 'Great' & 'Little Prior Parks' & a separate tenement called 'Prior Parks'. After the Dissolution Langage became part of the 'Manor of Plympton Grange' which remained in Crown hands until the early 17C.

Associated Monuments (5)

MDV1751Boringdon Camp, Sparkwell (Monument)
MDV71192Catch meadow south of Lower Langage Farm, Sparkwell (Monument)
MDV71193Field Boundaries at Langage Farm (Monument)
MDV16922Langage (Monument)
MDV23497Lower Langage Farmhouse (Building)