Langley is a township, 3 ¼ miles south-east of Lanchegter. The farms are for the most part scattered, and the only group of houses is around Wall Nook mill. The area, is 2,136 acres; rateable value, £7,474; the population in 1881 was 185.

On the slope of a wooded hill in this township, commanding a fine distant view of the city of Durham, the valley of the Brune and the neighbourhood, stand the extensive and picturesque ruins of Langley Hall, erected about 1533 by Henry le Scrope, 7th Baron Scrope of Bolton, who died in that or the succeeding year; the buildings retain a portion of a circular tower, with newel staircase, and on one of the walls are some boldly projecting corbels of three orders, with plain shields on the uppermost.