Langsett

Langsett is a village and <a href="/facts/Civil_parish/4GuHX8Wm">civil parish</a> in the <a href="/facts/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Barnsley/wEpMCnJM">Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley</a>, near <a href="/facts/Penistone/UMfWc4VL">Penistone</a>, <a href="/facts/South_Yorkshire/s3bSSRW6">South Yorkshire</a>. It lies on the edge of the <a href="/facts/Peak_District/VFeFWX47">Peak District</a> <a href="/facts/National_Park/otRgEoQ3">National Park</a>. At the 2001 census it had a population of 161, increasing to 222 at the 2011 Census.
In the early medieval period, Langsett was known as Penisale. It held a <a href="/facts/Royal_charter/9R9nIJDR">royal charter</a> entitling it to hold a weekly <a href="/facts/Market_(place)/TaoHSSq2">market</a> on Tuesdays and an annual three-day fair, but these were held somewhere in the country rather than in the village itself. The market charter was later used to start a market in <a href="/facts/Penistone/UMfWc4VL">Penistone</a>.
A tradition associates the location of Penisale market with a cross near the junction of Cross Lane and Hartcliffe Road. This theory is rejected by Neville T. Sharpe, who holds that this was a <a href="/facts/Wayside_cross/WyemKADN">wayside cross</a> used as a guide by travellers.
In <a href="/facts/Chronostratigraphy/L3XU1Uh3">chronostratigraphy</a>, the British <a href="/facts/Stage_(stratigraphy)/6HActMK7">sub-stage</a> of the <a href="/facts/Carboniferous/BRKlkYyd">Carboniferous</a> period, the 'Langsettian' derives its name from a study of geological exposures in the banks of the <a href="/facts/Little_Don_River/YVaBVRyQ">Little Don River</a> near Langsett.
The <a href="/facts/Peak_District_Boundary_Walk/BuJ1IxAJ">Peak District Boundary Walk</a> runs through the village.

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