Langold
Langold is in Nottinghamshire. Langold Park, with it's great lake, belonged to the Segrave family, deriving its name from the Langholt or Long Wood.
After the Segrave's it belonged to the De Langholts, De Terringtons, Cressys, the ancient lords of Hodsock, and Burtons.
It was purchased by Sir Ralph Knight in about 1663.
The following extract from the Leeds Mercury details Langold as it was in 1900.
Popular fancy may turn Gildingwells into "Golden Wells" and Langold into the "The land of gold." But the latter should I daresay, be Langholt, which clearly signifies the long wood. Here we have a Yorkshire shrine of which Yorkshiremen seem to have forgotten the very existence, and would not know which way to turn to find it. It is a goodly estate to the east of Gildingwells, half of it lying in Yorkshire, and half in Nottinghamshire, the border-line crossing the singularly fine lake. Not only is it the birthplace of Henry Gally Knight, the "Yorkshire ruskin," but is a place of much earlier memories that Brantwood - memories of the highest interest, both historic and classic. Sir Ralph Knight, the "Yorkshire Ruskin's" ancestor, espoused a daughter of the Vicar of Rotherham on June 23rd, 1645. and made Langold his abode, so far as a military life would allow of any settled residence. Here he is said to have entertained General Monk on his march from Coldstream to London. It is to be regretted that Sir Ralph, as a very decided factor in the events of those troublous times, and who was afterwards intimately acquainted with the secret springs in a most critical period of our history, did not, like several of his contemporaries, leave written memorials of his services. However, such biographical details could have been of little or no use in the present connection. There used to hang in the dining room at Langold a large portrait in oils of Sir Ralph clothed in armour cap-a-pie, with a truncheon in his hand. He died on April 21st, 1691. and was buried in Firbeck Church, where there is a monument to his memory. Of his heirs and successors more hereafter.
The Gally Knights' and Langold
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