Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire

Description
Langley Marish, a village and a parish in Buckinghamshire. The village stands near the G.W.R., 3 1/2 miles NE by E of Windsor, and 2 E from Slough, and has a station on the railway and a post, money order, and telegraph office, under Slough, both of the name of Langley. The parish contains also part of Colnbrook, and bears the alternative name of St Mary. Acreage, 3937; population of the civil parish, 2474; of the ecclesiastical, 1898. The manor, with Langley Park, belonged to the Crown, was given by Charles I. to Sir John Kederminster, and belongs now to the Harvey family. The present mansion was built in 1755 by the third Duke of Marlborough, is a spacious edifice in a finely-wooded park of about 380 acres, and contains a rich collection of pictures. The Black Park, the property of the Harveys, on rising ground in the N, comprises 530 acres, is almost wholly covered with firs, and contains a sombre-looking lake. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value,, £325 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. There are almshouses for twelve persons and charities worth about £100 a year. The church has a nave partly Norman, a chancel and an aisle in Early Decorated English, with two good Early English windows, and a tower built by the Kederminsters in 1649. A small theological library was founded by Sir John Kederminster, is placed over the S porch, and is free to the clergymen of the county.