LANGTHORPE is a village and township in Kirby Hill parish, Hallikeld wapentake, Thirsk union and Ripon county court district, 6 miles south-east from Ripon. Here is a Baptist chapel. There are many freeholders, but Robert Charles de Grey Vyner esq. of Tupholme Hall, Gautby, Horncastle, is the principal landowner. The Knaresborough and Boroughbridge branch of the North Eastern railway passes through the parish, the Boroughbridge station being partly in this and partly in the adjoining parish of Milby. The river Ure, which is navigable to Ripon. bounds the parish on the south. The area is 1,003 acres of land and 22 of water; rateable value, £2,605; the population in 1911 was 334.