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Langley Field
Langley may refer to: People * Langley (surname), a common English surname, including a list of notable people with the name * Dawn Langley Simmons (1922–2000), English author and biographer * Langley Wakeman Collyer (1885–1947), one of the Collyer brothers * Langley Fox (born 1989), American illustrator and model * Lang Hancock (1909–1992) Australian iron ore magnate * Langley Kirkwood (born 1973), South African actor and triathlete * Langley Frank Willard Smith (1897–1917) Canadian flying ace Places Australia * Langley, Victoria Canada * Langley, British Columbia (district municipality), or Township of Langley, a district municipality in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia ** Fort Langley, a community in the Township of Langley, historically referred to simply as "Langley" * Langley, British Columbia (city), or City of Langley, is a separately incorporated urban municipality encompassed by the Township of Langley * Langley (federal electoral dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley (surname)
Langley is a habitational surname from any of the numerous places named with Old English ''Lang'' (meaning ‘long’) + ''lēah'' (meaning ‘wood’ or ‘glade’) List of people with this surname *A. DeWade Langley, American police officer *Ambrose Langley (1870–1937), English football manager *Anthony Langley (born 1954) British businessman *Arthur Langley, previously Arthur Longbottom (footballer) (1933–2023), English football manager *Batty Langley (1696–1751), English garden designer *Bob Langley (born 1939), English TV presenter *Brendan Langley (born 1994), American football player *Brian Langley, American politician *Bruno Langley (born 1983), English actor *Chris Langley (born 1980), English rugby league player *Clint Langley (born 1970), English comic-book artist *Desmond Langley (1930–2008), English army officer *Diane Langley, American politician *Donna Langley, Donna Langley-Shamshiri (born 1968), British movie executive and Chairwoman of Universal Pictures *D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley, Yarnscombe
Langley was a historic estate in the parish of Yarnscombe, Devon, situated one mile north-east of the village of Yarnscombe. It was long the seat of a junior branch of the Pollard family of Way in the parish of St Giles in the Wood, Devon, 3 miles to the south. Descent de Langley A family of this name is not recorded in surviving records, however Richard Langley of Bawley in the parish of Braunton, Devon, may have been an ancestor of Emma Doddiscombe, wife of John I Pollard of Way (see below). Britton According to Risdon (d. 1640), the family of Britton held Langley at time unspecified. On the failure of the male line, a daughter of the family brought Langley to her husband Roger Pollard "who planted himself so firmly in this place that his posterity have hitherto possessed the same". Pollard The descent of the Pollard family of Langley is as follows: John I Pollard of Way John I Pollard of Way, who married Emma Doddiscombe, one of the five daughters and co-heiress of Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley Chapel
Langley Chapel is an Anglican church, built in 1601, located in a remote area (the parish of Ruckley and Langley) approximately 1.5 miles to the south of Acton Burnell, Shropshire, England. It is now in the care of English Heritage, and is notable for having a complete set of original 17th-century wooden furniture, and its lack of a chancel, in line both with its small size and Protestant attitudes to worship. It is one of the few new churches built in England in the Elizabethan period. Despite being built at the start of the 17th century, the east window tracery is in a simplified Gothic style, though the doorways are in plain vernacular styles, one with a flat lintel and another round-headed. The window on the north side is also plain and rectangular. It is a Grade I listed building. Built on the site of an earlier medieval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley, Shropshire
Ruckley and Langley is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is centred on the hamlets of Ruckley and Langley. The population at the 2011 census can be found under Frodesley. It is situated south of Acton Burnell and west of Kenley.Ordnance Survey mapping Langley Chapel, in Langley, is a small church, built in 1601, and now owned by English Heritage English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, a battlefield, medieval castles, Roman forts, historic industrial sites, Lis .... References Civil parishes in Shropshire Villages in Shropshire {{Shropshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley Castle
Langley Castle is a restored Middle Ages, medieval tower house, in the village of Langley, Northumberland, Langley in the valley of the River Tyne, River South Tyne. The castle is south of Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, in Northumberland, England. Langley Castle is a Grade I listed building. The property switched ownership several times over hundreds of years until Langley Castle was finally built in 1364. The castle was built in an H shape with four floors, and has four towers on each corner. The castle has several other unique architectural features. After being severely damaged by a fire in 1405, Langley Castle was left in ruins for 500 years until it was restored in 1914. In the last 100 years Langley Castle went through many uses, and now operates as a hotel. History The Twelfth Century is when any record of Langley was first found, 200 years before the construction of Langley Castle. It was owned by Adam de Tindal in 1165 until he died in 1191 and his son, Adam de Tindal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley, Northumberland
Langley or Langley-on-Tyne is a small village in Northumberland, England, located to the west of Hexham. The village is on the A686 about south of Haydon Bridge. The skyline of Langley on Tyne is still dominated by the lead smelting chimney with its underground flue leading to the old smelt works, now a sawmill, where the old tracks for the ore wagons can still be seen. There are currently just over 100 residents in Langley. Governance Langley is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham, Joe Morris of the Labour Party is the Member of Parliament. For Local Government purposes it belongs to Northumberland County Council a unitary authority, with Langley lying in the ''Tynedale Division''. Prior to the 2009 structural changes to local government in England it was part of Tynedale Council. Landmarks Langley Castle is a restored medieval tower house, and a Grade I listed building. It was built in the middle of the 14th century as a great H-shaped tower of four store ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley, Kent
Langley is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Maidstone (borough), Maidstone District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the A274 road leading south from Maidstone to Headcorn . History Langley is a common English place-name, from the Old English ''lang leah'' or ‘long field or woodland’. This village first appears in the records in 814 as Longanleag. The village church is dedicated to St Mary. Behind this church is a lake, which is possible place for the medieval judicial practice of trial by ordeal, trial by cold water. When a jury couldn't decide on a person's innocence, it was left to God to decide. If the accused floated they were guilty because the water rejected them. If they sank, the water accepted them and thus were innocent. As is often thought it is not if they drowned, but the result was drowning in some cases. It had to be close to the church because the water would be holy. Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery exhibits articles ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley, Hertfordshire
Langley is a hamlet (place), hamlet and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is located four miles south of Hitchin, on the B656 road west of Stevenage. The ruined Minsden Chapel lies within the parish. History Langley and neighbouring Preston, Hertfordshire, Preston historically formed part of the ancient parish of Hitchin, together forming a long Salient (geography), salient to the south of the town itself. Minsden Chapel was built, probably in the 14th century, to serve as a chapel of ease for the rural southern part of Hitchin parish. It stands in an isolated location halfway between Langley and Preston, the two main settlements it was intended to serve. The chapel had been abandoned and fallen into ruin by the end of the 17th century. From 1873, the town of Hitchin was constituted a Local Government Act 1858, local government district. Under the Local Government Act 1894, such districts were reconstituted as Urban district (England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley, Hampshire
Langley is a small village in the civil parish of Fawley in Hampshire, England. History The name Langley means "long wood/clearing". Langley is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, when it was held by Hugh of St Quentin. In 1372 John Baron of South Langley and Julia his wife held a messuage and land in South Langley. Thence the tenement passed indirectly to Richard Goolde and his wife Joan in 1413. John Ludlowe held the land in 1482. In 1500 the right of the Ludlowes to hold the manor (here so-called for the first time) was fiercely disputed in the Court of Chancery The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid a slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the Common law#History, common law. The Chancery had jurisdiction over ... by one William Fletcher. The Ludlowes evidently won, for in 1609 Sir Edward Ludlowe sold the manor of Langley to Sir Walter Longe. This united the manor of Langley t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley, Greater Manchester
Langley is an suburb near Middleton, Greater Manchester, England, southwest of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester city centre. Langley is an overspill estate, created in the 1950s for Manchester City Council. Families moved into the new housing from the slum clearance areas of Manchester, the eventual population of about 25,000 doubling that of Middleton. All the street names are adopted from different areas of the Lake District. In 1990, Langley estate was the focus of a satanic panic and in 2006 twelve of the now-adult victims sued Rochdale Council for compensation. The Ken Loach film '' Raining Stones'' was filmed in and around Langley in 1993. File:Wood Street, Langley.jpg, A street in Langley with council homes built by Manchester City Council Manchester City Council is the Local government in England, local authority for the City status in the United Kingdom, city of Manchester in Greater Manchester, England. Manchester has had an elected local authority sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
