Langley

[aldercar]

Can anyone please tell me the origin of the name Langley. We have Kirk Langley, Abbotts Langley and Langley Mill to name but a few.

I know there is a flour mill at Langley Mill, but I do not know what Langley means.

[dzug]

It means long (lang) meadow (ley)

[aldercar]

Thanks for that

[Octavius]

That�s the trouble with these Old English names - they conjure up images of woodland and open pastures and rolling meadows and � donkeys. One particular disappointment for me is Leytonstone in East London. Originally Leyton-atte-stone, or Leyton of the Stone � actually refers to a �woodland clearing (Ley) with farmstead (Ton) where stands a (Stone) mile marker� which has been dated back to Roman times. The marker stone has since been updated, although the base is very very old.

Anyway, anyone who has ever been in sniffing distance of Leytonstone will know that woodland clearings and rolling meadow�s have not featured for a very long time.

[BrainMonkeys]

Sometimes the suffix in a place name is also the name of the resident family, usually the landowner in times past. Dzug is right in saying that the word means 'long meadow', but it could also theoretically be that a family called Langley were once the head family in the area.