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Langley Green is an area of Oldbury, on the B4169 road, in the Metropolitan Borough of

Sandwell Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county in England. The borough is named after the Sandwell Priory, and spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands conurbation. According to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, t ...

, in the English county of

West Midlands West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

. 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 Langley Green railway station serves the Langley Green, Sandwell, Langley Green area of Oldbury, West Midlands, Oldbury in Sandwell, in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is located on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidder ...

. 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 th ...

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 His ...

in an extremely complicated manner.

References

* A-Z Birmingham (page 97)

External links

Oldbury Rep Theatre
Areas of Sandwell Oldbury, West Midlands {{WestMidlands-geo-stub

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