The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Torp in the Hallikeld hundred. The lands were the possession of Gospatric, son of Arnketil both before and after the Norman invasion.[2]
There was a brewery, Warwick's Anchor Brewery, in the village, but now disused.[3]
Governance
The village lies within the Skipton and Ripon UK Parliament constituency. It is also within the Boroughbridge electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council and the Newby ward of Harrogate Borough District Council.[4]
Geography
The old brewery at Langthorpe, beside the River Ure, now converted into housing
The nearest settlements are Boroughbridge 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the south; Milby 0.8 miles (1.3 km) to the north-east; Kirby-on-the-Moor 0.7 miles (1.1 km) to the north and Skelton-on-Ure 1.9 miles (3.1 km) to the west.[4]
The 2001 UK Census recorded the parish population as 774 of which 638 are over sixteen years old and 412 of those were in employment. There were 327 dwellings of which 122 were detached.[5]
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