LANGFORTH, (Nottinghamshire) or LANDFORD, on the N. side of Newark, formerly bel. to the Pierpoints, till sold to Sir Fr.
Leek, who afterwards sold it to Geo. Talbot E. of Shrewsbury. There is a moor here, which did belong to the Kts. of St.
John of Jerusalem, but was granted by K. Edw. VI. to Sir Edw. Fiennes, afterwards Ld. Clinton and Say, Henry Hereson, and
their heirs; and was not very long ago purchased by Dr. More, and by him left to his nephew Sir Ed. More, a Bt. of Nova-
Scotia.