Langley

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Langley is a surname, often a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English lang ‘long’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘glade’; or a topographic name with the same meaning.

Langley may refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 Things 2.1 Ships 3 Places 3.1 Canada 3.2 France 3.3 England 3.4 USA

[edit] People

The Langley coat of arms.

• Samuel Pierpont Langley, a scientist and early experimenter in manned flight
• Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and Lord Chancellor

[edit] Things

• the langley (unit), a measuring unit named after Samuel Pierpoint Langley
• Langley Grammar School in Berkshire, England
• Langley Mill Pottery in Langley Mill, Derbyshire, England
• The Langley Schools Music Project, a recording
• Asuka Langley Soryu from Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Langley Castle, in Northumberland, England, and its associated medieval Prescriptive Barony, originally held by the Tyndall family.
• The Langley extrapolation is a technique for measuring the Sun's radiance from ground-based instrumentation.

[edit] Ships

Two United States Navy ships have borne the name Langley, after the American scientific pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley:

• USS Langley (CV-1), the first aircraft carrier of the Navy, converted from the collier Jupiter in 1922, and sunk in February 1942 by the Japanese
• USS Langley (CVL-27), a light aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943, active in World War II, and transferred to France in 1951

[edit] Places

Langley is the name of several places:

[edit] Canada

• Langley, British Columbia (district municipality), a district municipality in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia
• Langley, British Columbia (city), an urban municipality next to the Township of Langley (separately incorporated)
• Langley (electoral district), a Canadian federal electoral district in British Columbia, which encompasses the above city and district municipality of Langley, British Columbia, as well as numerous Indian reserves named Langley No. 1, Langley No. 2, Langley No. 3 and so on.
• Langley (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district centred on Langley, British Columbia

[edit] France

• Langley, Vosges, a commune in the Vosges département

[edit] England

• Langley, Cheshire
• Langley, Derbyshire
• Langley, Essex
• Langley, Gloucestershire
• Langley, Hampshire
• Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire
• Kings Langley, Hertfordshire
• Langley, Hertfordshire (between Hitchin and Codicote, approx. 20 km NE of Abbots Langley and Kings Langley)
• Langley, Kent
• Langley, Northumberland
• Langley, Oxfordshire
• Langley, Rochdale
• Langley, Sandwell
• Langley, Slough in Berkshire, also known as Langley Marish - formerly in Buckinghamshire
• Langley, Somerset
• Langley, Warwickshire
• Langley, West Sussex
• Langley Burrell, Wiltshire
• Langley Common, Derbyshire
• Langley Heath, Kent
• Langley Lower Green, Essex
• Langley Upper Green, Essex
• Langley Mill, Derbyshire
• Langley Park, Durham
• Langley Street, Norfolk

[edit] USA

• Langley, Oklahoma
• Langley, South Carolina
• Langley, Virginia, most famous as home to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Langley, Washington
• Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia
• Langley Island (Maryland)
• Langley Island (Massachusetts)
• Langley Park, Maryland
• Langley Research Center (NASA) in Hampton, Virginia