LANGLEY, a hamlet and a parochial chapelry in Halesowen parish, Worcester. The hamlet lies contiguous to Oldbury, near Oldbury r. station, and near the boundary with Staffordshire, 3 miles ESE of Dudley. The chapelry contains also the village of Rounds-Green; and was constituted in 1845. Post-town, Oldbury, under Birmingham. Acres, 1,100. Pop. in 1861,5,825. Houses, 1,105. The manor belonged to the late P. A. Fraser, Esq. There are extensive iron-works, steelworks, alkali-works, phosphorus-works, brick-yards, and collieries. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £300. * Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built., in 1852, and is in the early English decorated style. Another church, of a temporary kind, was opened in 1853 at Rounds-Green. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and New Connexion Methodists.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))