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  official Name Langley
  unitary England Slough
  lieutenancy England Berkshire
  region South East England
  constituency Westminster Slough
  post Town SLOUGH
  postcode District SL3
  postcode Area SL
  dial Code 01753
  os Grid Reference TQ005795
  latitude 515059
  longitude -05526


Langley (also known as '''Langley Marish''') is a Village in the unitary authority of Slough , Berkshire in South East England .

Until boundary reorganisation in 1974 Langley was in the county of Buckinghamshire .

The parish church of St. Mary The Virgin is in the parish of Langley Marish in the diocese of Oxford . The church houses the Kedermister Library , given by Sir John Kedermister , who also endowed the surviving almshouses of 1617 in the village.

Other surviving almshouses include the Seymour Almshouses (1679-1688), given by Sir Edward Seymour who was the Speaker of the House Of Commons , and those founded in 1839 by William Wild in Horsemoor Green.

Langley Hall is now part of East Berkshire College .

Langley Railway Station is on the Oxford-Reading-Slough-London Paddington line. The train operator for this route is First Great Western Link .

The writer John Pudney was a native of Langley.


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