LANGRIDGE, a parish in the hundred of BATH-FORUM,
county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (N. by W.) from
Bath, containing 103 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese
of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at
£5. 19. 4., and in the patronage of William Blathwayt,
Esq. In rebuilding the rectory-house, a few years
since, several stone coffins and sculls, and a silvermounted
battle-axe, were discovered. At one of the
extremities of the parish is Lansdown hill, where a
bloody, though indecisive, battle was fought between
the royal and parliamentarian armies in 1643.