[en] The angular distributions of neutrons from the reactions ¹³C (p,n) ¹³N and ¹⁹F (p, n) ¹⁹Ne have been measured for some energies close to the reactions threshold. For the reaction ⁹B (p, n) ⁹C angular distributions have been measured at several proton energies below the reaction threshold of the neutrons to the first excited state in ¹¹C . A 5.5 MeV Van de Graaff has been used for the experiments. The neutrons were detected with a long counter. The measurements were carried out for 16 energies for the B (p,n) reaction, 3 energies for the C (p, n) reaction, and for 7 energies for the F 19(p, n) reaction. One of the main reasons for investigating these (p, n) reactions was to check whether the direct reaction process is important at low proton energies as well as close to reaction thresholds in nuclei consisting of closed shells of neutrons and protons either with an extra nucleon outside the closed shell or a nucleon hole. Comparisons with a theory proposed by Bloom, Glendenning, and Moszkowski have been performed