The Langford tri villages otherwise known as The Langfords are a collection of three villages situated in the mystical corner of southwestern England, not far from the enigmatic Stonehenge monument. On the southen edge of Salisbury Plain runs the river Wylye and on its banks are the villages known as Hanging Langford, Steeple Langford and Little Langford. The place has been occupide by man for thousands of years and not far from the village is Langford Camp on top of a hill. An ancient stone age settlement that was home to a group of people that belonged to the ancient British tribe of the Belgae who were celts who settled in England thousands of years ago. These ancient people were responsible for building the huge standing stone monuments at Stonehenge, Avebury and White Barrow to name but a few and who also built huge hill forts at Yarnbury and Bratton and carved the giant white horses into the chalk that is below the surface all over the rolling Marlborough downs. After the celts the area was settled in by the Anglo-Saxons. They were the ones that built Saint Matherws Church ( picture below ), that scholars place as one of the principle surviving Anglo-Saxon churches in Britain, built around 1040, twenty years before the Normans invaded. A sculpture in the village known as the Langford Rood also pre-dates the Norman conquest, a figure of Christ on the cross. This representation of the crucifixion is unique to England. Jesus is wearing a robe down to his ankles and apparently has on shoes. No nails can be seen in either the hands or the feet. The word Langford is Anglo-Saxon in origin, "Lang" is Anglo-Saxon for "Long", and "Ford" is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning a shallow crossing point in a river.

The village is little more than a collection of thatched roof cottages that cling precariously to the side of a steep cliff over looking the river and a few ponds. The main businesses in the village are two country pubs and Langford Downs, a horse farm. Farming is still a big employer around the villages growing crops and rearing animals. In the heart of the village is the village hall, an old weatherd wood framed building with notices stook to the walls. In the areas surrounding the villages locals can often be seen walking down the winding country lanes carrying shotguns as they hunt rabbits and foxes in the woods and fields. Many people also fish in the stream and the ponds and usually catch many Carp.

This village may be the place where the Langford surname was taken from. If a man was born in the village during the time of the Norman conquest, such as Osm' de Langeford, recorded in the Pipe Rolls for Wiltshire in 1130 and moved to another town or was recorded in Norman records he would have been known as Osm' from the villages of Langford i.e. Osm' de Langeford. This is about the time that hereditory surnames came into use so this village is probably the birth place of the Langford surname. Also in South Western England the concerntration of people bearing the Langford surname is higher than anywhere else in the country per head of population. Also more villages exist named Langford in South Western England. This can be explained. If a man whose surname was Langford settled and was granted land somewhere else, in later Norman records it would be recorded as the land that belonged to Langford, and so the name would stick to that area.