Langsett

{{short description|Village and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England}}

{{for|the suburb of Sheffield|Walkley}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|53.50|-1.68|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Langsett

| population = 222

| population_ref = (2011)

| metropolitan_borough = Barnsley

| civil_parish = Langsett

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| metropolitan_county = South Yorkshire

| post_town = SHEFFIELD

| postcode_district = S36

| postcode_area = S

| dial_code = 01226

| os_grid_reference =

| constituency_westminster = Penistone and Stocksbridge

| static_image = Langsett Village and Reservoir from Gilbert Hill - geograph.org.uk - 923482.jpg

| static_image_caption = View from Gilbert Hill

}}

Langsett is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the edge of the Peak District National Park. At the 2001 census it had a population of 161,[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790253 Census 2001] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222183129/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790253 |date=2016-12-22 }} increasing to 222 at the 2011 Census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125430&c=Langsett&d=16&e=62&g=6353767&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1457174026062&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=5 March 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}

In the early medieval period, Langsett was known as Penisale. It held a royal charter entitling it to hold a weekly market 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 Penistone.{{cite book |first=David |last=Hey |authorlink=David Hey |title=Medieval South Yorkshire |publisher=Landmark Publishing Ltd |date=2003 |isbn=1843060809}}

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 wayside cross used as a guide by travellers.{{cite book |first=Neville T. |last=Sharpe |title=Crosses of the Peak District |publisher=Landmark Collectors Library |date=2002 |isbn=1843060442}}

In chronostratigraphy, the British sub-stage of the Carboniferous period, the 'Langsettian' derives its name from a study of geological exposures in the banks of the Little Don River near Langsett.Cleal, C. J., Thomas, B. A., 1996 British Upper Carboniferous Stratigraphy Vol 11 of the Geological Conservation Review series

Langsett was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Wapentake of Staincross, an area that almost corresponds with the modern day Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley.{{cite book |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3762057 |title=Catalogue description Wapentake: Staincross. Parish: Penistone; Township: (3)Denby; Hamlet: Upper Bagden.... |year=1841}}

The Peak District Boundary Walk runs through the village.{{Cite book|last=McCloy|first=Andrew|title=Peak District Boundary Walk: 190 Miles Around the Edge of the National Park|publisher=Friends of the Peak District|year=2017|isbn=978-1909461536}}