Meynell Langley is a small area of settlement in
Derbyshire, England. It is located between
Kirk Langley
Kirk Langley is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire. The village is northwest of Derby and south east of Brailsford on the A52 road. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census (including Meynell Langley) was 686.
The Mey ...
and
Kedleston
Kedleston is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, approximately north-west of Derby. Nearby places include Quarndon, Weston Underwood, Derbyshire, Weston Underwood, Mugginton and Kirk Langley. The population a ...
.
Meynell Langley Hall is the ancestral home of the Meynell family.
In 2015 Godfrey Meynell who had been
High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1982,
and his son, placed a version of
Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno by Joseph Wright in an auction at
Sotheby's. It was one of the Wright paintings that were kept at Meynell Langley Hall. The money raised was to be donated to assist Syrian refugees in Greece. This painting had been in their family since 1840.
[Joseph Wright painting to be sold in aid of Syrian refugees]
9 December 2015, BBC News, Retrieved 9 December 2015
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Villages in Derbyshire
Geography of Amber Valley
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