Langley Essex Family History Guide
Langley is a chapelry of Clavering Ancient Parish in Essex.
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Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1678
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1801
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Particular Baptist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LANGLEY, a parish in Saffron-Walden district, Essex; adjacent to Herts, 5½ miles W by N of Newport r. station, and 7 W SW of Saffron-Walden. Post-town, Clavering, under Bishop-Stortford.
Acres, 1,617. Real property, £1,508. Pop., 410. Houses, 91. The property is much subdivided.
The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Clavering, in the diocese of Rochester. A chapel was here in the time of Henry II.; and the parish is sometimes regarded as a chapelry. The present church is good; and there are a Baptist chapel, a parochial school, and charities £8.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Saffron Walden
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Newport
- Poor Law Union: Saffron Walden
- Hundred: Clavering (Essex)
- Province: Canterbury