Langton Herring is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England.

[3] The name of the village comes from the Old English 'Lang + tun' meaning 'long farmstead or estate' with the 13th Century 'Harang' family affix, from their time as Lords of the Manor.

Literature in the church records that all the men of Langton Herring returned from both World Wars, making it one of only a handful of doubly Thankful Villages in the country, and the only village in Dorset to be spared fatalities in the Great War.

Just over half a mile to the east of the village, by the B3157 road, is Langton Cross, a medieval stone monolith, which is missing the top arm.

[4] Langton Herring had a public house 'The Elm Tree Inn', a historic building dating back approximately 400 years,[5] which has been closed since 2023.