Langley Mill, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Langley Mill, a village partly in Heanor parish, Derbyshire, partly in Eastwood parish, Notts, on the Erewash river, adjacent to the Erewash Canal and the Erewash Valley railway, 8½ miles N of Ilkeston. It has a station on the railway, a post, money order, and telegraph office (E.S.O.), a large corn mill, wheel and waggon works, and an iron and brass foundry. There are a chapel of ease, and Baptist, Primitive and Free Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in conjunction with the Derbyshire Record Office, have the Church of England Baptisms (1538-1916), Marriages and Banns (1538-1932), and Burials (1538-1991) online.
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Langley Mill are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Derbyshire papers online: