Kirk Langley

Kirk Langley

Infobox UK place
country = England
static_

static_image_caption=Kirk Langley church.
latitude = 52.946
longitude = -1.572
map_type = Derbyshire
official_name = Kirk Langley
population =
shire_district = Amber Valley
shire_county = Derbyshire
region = East Midlands
constituency_westminster =
post_town = ASHBOURNE
postcode_district = DE6
postcode_area = DE
dial_code =
os_grid_reference = SK288388

Kirk Langley is a village in Derbyshire. The village is four miles north of Derby and two miles south east of Brailsford on the A52 road. There are in fact two villages: Kirk Langley and Meynell Langley.

History

The Meynell family have held land here since Henry I. [ [http://www.derbyshireuk.net/langley.html Kirk Langley at Derbyshireuk.net] accessed 15 January 2008] In 1545, the local church of St Michael was nearly destroyed in a tempest. [ [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/KirkLangley/index.html Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835] ]

Today

The village has a Church of England primary school [ [http://www.kirklangley.derbyshire.sch.uk/ Kirk Langley CE (C) Primary School] ] which has about fifty pupils.

Notable residents

* George Barrington, cricketer died here.

References


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