bucket is called the lander; but this name may be from landour, the church near the water; or lan-dar, the church oak. Lander was the name of the celebrated African travellers, natives of Truro, one of whom discovered the course of the Niger.
LANDEW. From Landew in Lezant; God's enclosure, or the churchyard, the sanctuary (lan-Due, Dew); or from lan-dew, the black enclosure or church.
LANDREY, LANDRY. From lan-dre, the church dwelling; lan-drea, the principal church; or lan-dreath, -draith, the church on the sand or sandy shore. Hence perhaps Landary and Laundry.
LANDSWORTH. From Nansworth; from nans-worth, the high valley. Cf. the local name Lansladron, for Nansladron.
LANDZELLE. From Launcells parish; so called, according to Tonkin, from being a cell to the abbey of Hartland in Devonshire (lan, an enclosure or church).
LANFEAR. Lower refers this name to Lanphear which Arthur derives from Gael. lann-fear, a pikeman. The name is found in Cornwall and may be derived from locality; from lan-veor, the great church.
LANGAN, LANIGAN. Lan-igans would signify twenty churches; but see Langon, Lanyon.
LANGDON. There are families of this name from parishes in Essex, Kent, &c. The Langdons of Cornwall are from Langdon, "long hill," in the parish of Jacobstow, their ancient patrimony.
LANGFORD. The Cornish family of this name derives from Roger de Langford, sheriff of Cornwall in 1255, who took his surname from his estate of Langford, in the parish of Marham Church. (C. S. Gilbert.) The name is probably
