260px, The B4169: Causeway Green Road (in foreground) and New Henry Street, Langley Green
Langley Green is an area of
Oldbury, on the
B4169 road, in the Metropolitan Borough of
Sandwell, in the English county of
West Midlands. The appropriate ward of Sandwell is simply called Langley. The population at the
2011 census was 12,969.
Langley Green has a library, a theatre and a railway station called
Langley Green railway station. The Oldbury Rep Theatre, which had its first production in 1944, moved to its current location in 1956. The theatre is Sandwell's only purpose-built theatre. It hosts a variety of productions and has established itself as a community theatre providing a venue for local organisations and schools.
Before 1844, the locality was shared between the counties of
Shropshire
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to ...
and
Worcestershire
Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see H ...
in an extremely complicated manner.
See also
*
Q3 Academy Langley
References
* A-Z Birmingham (page 97)
External links
Oldbury Rep Theatre
Areas of Sandwell
Oldbury, West Midlands
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