Langley 1863 Whites Directory
LANGLEY, a pleasant scattered village, at the north end of this Hundred, 7 miles W.S.W. of Saffron- Walden, and S.E. of Royston, has in its parish 410 souls, and 1617A. 2R. 27P. of land, adjoining Hertfordshire, and including a large wood and several scattered farm-houses, &c. The Rev. J. N. Simpkinson is lord of the manor of Clavering with Langley; but J. C. Dimsdale, Esq., and a few smaller owners, have estates in the parish, which was anciently appropriated to St. Bartholomew’s Priory, in West Smithfield.
The ancient Church (St. John) went to decay some centuries ago, but a small new one was built in the sixteenth century, at the charge of Saint Thomas’s, Bridewell, and Christ’s Hospitals, London, to which the great tithes were given in 1592, together with those of Clavering parish, to which Langley has since been considered a chapelry, its curacy being consolidated with the vicarage of that place. The glebe here is 43A. 30p. , and the tithes were commuted in 1838— the rectorial for £156. 7s. , and the vicarial for £156. 15s. The National School has recently been erected at the cost of £634. Here is a Baptist Chapel, erected in 1827. For apprenticing poor boys, this parish has a few pounds a year from Barlee’s Charity (see Clavering), and the poor have 13s. annually from Martin’s Charity (see Chrishall). A yearly rent- charge of 20s. , for 20 poor labourers, was left by one Collin, out of Prentice Closes, but the owner refused to pay it in 1815. A legacy of £200 was left for the repairs of the Church, by Martha Cramond, in 1814. After deducting £20 for legacy duty, and £25 for repairs, the rest was laid out in the purchase of £214. 1s. 5d. three-per-cent. consols.
Post via Bishop’s Stortford.
Bright Josiah, vict. Black Bull
Codling William H. shopkeeper
Dew William, boot and shoemaker
Driver James, carpenter
Hammond Miss, schoolmistress
Last Susan, shopkeeper
Newland Thos. boot and shoemaker
Revell Francis, parish clerk
Rumball Jonas & William beerhouses – Bell
Smith Rev. Charles (Baptist)
FARMERSRS.
Crannaway John, Mount Pleasant
Law Joseph
Patten John
Maidment Peter, Langley Lodge
Pilgrim Thomas
Savill James
PrimeJoseph
Prentice Hy. Hall