Kirk Langley

Kirk Langley is just a five-minute drive from the city of Derby, yet the setting is truly rural and peaceful, with delightful views towards the National Trust’s Kedleston Estate. Kirk Langley is bisected by the main road from Derby to Ashbourne, and actually consists of two villages: Kirk Langley and Meynell Langley, centred on the Victorian brick mansion of Langley Park, site of the Meynell Family for 800 years, since the reign of Henry I. The Poles of Radbourne have also had landed interests in this area for many years.

The Parish Church of St Michael is early 14th century, built on the site of an older Saxon church. There are monuments to the Meynell and Pole families, including a memorial to Hugo Frances Meynell, ‘who was deprived of his life in a collision of carriages’ in Clay Cross tunnel. Another one commemorates William Meynell, who was killed in the 19th century when leading the Turks against the Russians on the river Danube. The only pub is the Bluebell at Langley Common.