Langley is a village and civil parish near Clavering in the English county of Essex, seven miles west-south-west of Saffron Walden.

It is located in the local government district of Uttlesford and within the Saffron Walden (UK Parliament constituency).

The highest point of the county of Essex at 482 feet (147 m) is near to the village of Langley at Chrishall Common, close to the Hertfordshire border.

Langley in Essex adjoins two other counties Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, which are both visible on its horizons and has a Cambridge post code.

The village is very rural; surrounded by arable farming; with numerous public footpaths; narrow country roads, bridleways and byways and is situated along routes very popular with cyclists.

The nearest railway station is Audley End with links to Cambridge, and London and Stansted airport via Bishop's Stortford.

The training farm was for unemployed and unskilled young men from London unable to obtain work.

Whereas the farm was not profitable the success of the skills training led them to move to a 225 acre site in Buckinghamshire instead.