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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]I know what you mean - I have always called it a village, but it never felt like one. But I think if you look around the area, you would find lots of places which have the same issues. At least now it does have a separate Parish Council, but that didn't happen till around the 1980's. Until then, it was part of Heanor Parish for secular issues (though had become its own parish for ecclesiastical issues in the early 1900's). The fact is that local authority reforms were very slow indeed and took no heed of what was happening in reality for a hundred or so years after it had happened. So, locally, you had the situation that Ripley was part of Pentrich parish, or, nationally, you had the situation up until 1832 that Birmingham didn't have an MP. So we are not alone. I think that one of the problems of saying we came from Heanor was that Langley Mill did have an clear identity of its own. We were the most industrialised "village" around - not as large, perhaps, as Heanor when it came to residential population, but as large when it came to the number of people working in the area. I personally have a bigger problem with Aldercar, as I never to this day have really been able to say exactly where Langley Mill ends and Aldercar starts. As Aldercar has no separate identity, either political or ecclesiastical, the only thing you can do is look where Aldercar was before the building of the mid to late 19th century began - I've done that, but am really still none the wiser! That said, I'm proud of the fact that it says Aldercar in my passport for place of birth! I don't have a problem with Stoneyford - that's a hamlet. Yes, its part of the secular Parish (not sure which ecclesiastical parish it belongs to - it used to be with Codnor Park), but is well stand-alone.[/quote]
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What is/was Langley Mill Anyway?
replied on: 12/1/2005 7:07:26 AM

I know what you mean - I have always called it a village, but it never felt like one. But I think if you look around the area, you would find lots of places which have the same issues.

At least now it does have a separate Parish Council, but that didn't happen till around the 1980's. Until then, it was part of Heanor Parish for secular issues (though had become its own parish for ecclesiastical issues in the early 1900's). The fact is that local authority reforms were very slow indeed and took no heed of what was happening in reality for a hundred or so years after it had happened. So, locally, you had the situation that Ripley was part of Pentrich parish, or, nationally, you had the situation up until 1832 that Birmingham didn't have an MP. So we are not alone.

I think that one of the problems of saying we came from Heanor was that Langley Mill did have an clear identity of its own. We were the most industrialised "village" around - not as large, perhaps, as Heanor when it came to residential population, but as large when it came to the number of people working in the area.

I personally have a bigger problem with Aldercar, as I never to this day have really been able to say exactly where Langley Mill ends and Aldercar starts. As Aldercar has no separate identity, either political or ecclesiastical, the only thing you can do is look where Aldercar was before the building of the mid to late 19th century began - I've done that, but am really still none the wiser! That said, I'm proud of the fact that it says Aldercar in my passport for place of birth!

I don't have a problem with Stoneyford - that's a hamlet. Yes, its part of the secular Parish (not sure which ecclesiastical parish it belongs to - it used to be with Codnor Park), but is well stand-alone.

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