The largest cemetery in the area by far is to be found on Ilkeston Road, Marlpool. Whilst Heanor Cemetery, as it is officially named, is administered by the local authority, prior to the mid-nineteenth century all burials took place at religious sites. But in 1856, a...
Did you know….? Langley is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, 700 years before Langley Mill existed! Other local places in the Domesday Book were Heanor, Codnor, and “Smithycotes.” Did you know….? Langley used to have its own...
Aldercar is an old area of what is now a joint administrative parish with Langley Mill. The grandest building in Aldercar (and Langley Mill too, for that matter) was Aldercar Hall. Originally built in 1668, by the mid 1800s the Hall was occupied by the Wright family,...
Langley Mill, until the 1950s/60s when substantial work was carried out to alleviate the problem, was particularly prone to flooding along Cromford Road and Station Road. This picture gallery is a collection showing the extent the floods could reach. Most were taken...
To most local people, the history of Langley Mill conjures up a picture of industrial activity, and little else – it has been claimed that it was the most industrialised village in the country. That is now in the past, and the village retains little...
