LANGLEY, a parish in Saffron-Walden district, Essex; adjacent to Herts, 5½ miles W by N of Newport r. station, and 7 W SW of Saffron-Walden. Post-town, Clavering, under Bishop-Stortford. Acres, 1,617. Real property, £1,508. Pop., 410. Houses, 91. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Clavering, in the diocese of Rochester. A chapel was here in the time of Henry II.; and the parish is sometimes regarded as a chapelry. The present church is good; and there are a Baptist chapel, a parochial school, and charities £8.

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