Langley, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex

Parish History
Langley St John the Baptist Upper Green is the parish church for Langley. It was formerly a chapelry in Clavering,_Essex Ancient parish. The Parish of Langley consists of two parts, Langley Upper Green and Langley Lower Green which are linked by roads and footpaths.

The diocese of Chelmsford was created in 1914, prior to this Essex parishes were in the jurisdiction of the Bishops of London until 1845 when they transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The diocese of Chelmsford has 474 parishes and 600 churches and is the second largest region in the church of England outside London.

LANGLEY (St. John the Evangelist), a parish, in the union of Saffron-Walden, hundred of Clavering, N. division of Essex, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Newport; containing 448 inhabitants. It comprises 1617a. 2r. 27p., of which 807 acres are arable, 500 pasture, 260 woodland, and 50 waste. The living is an endowed vicarage, annexed to the living of Clavering; impropriators, the Governors of the Hospitals of Christchurch, Bethlehem, and St. Thomas, London. The great tithes have been commuted for £152, and the vicarial for £153; the glebe comprises 47 acres. The church is a very ancient edifice. There is a place of worship for Baptists.

From: 'Langley - Langley-Priory', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 23-25. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51092 Date accessed: 15 February 2011.

Langley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Essex, seven miles west-south-west of Saffron Walden.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
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