Description
Langley Priory, formerly an extra-parochial tract, now a parish in Leicestershire, 3 miles SSW of Castle Donington, and 1 1/2 mile E from Tonge station on the M.R. Post town, Derby; money order and telegraph office, Castle Donington. Acreage, 564; population, 16. A Benedictine priory was founded here in the time of Henry II. by William Pantulf, and given at the dissolution to the Greys. A mansion on its site, and called Laugley Priory, is the seat of the Shakespeal-family.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
