Langley Park has grown steadily in recent years and has benefited from the influx of new residents, who are attracted to the village by the construction of several housing developments.

The BBC television comedy The Fast Show also used the village as a location, with Railway Street being frequently employed as a set to film scenes of "Unlucky Alf".

Railway Street's main attraction for film and TV companies is that it has remained essentially unchanged from the time of its construction in the late 19th century (although most – if not all – residents no longer have to leave their house and cross the street to the outside lavatories that remain as a reminder of a bygone age).

Group members Paddy and Martin McAloon were brought up in the nearby village of Witton Gilbert.

The village was also the childhood home of former Ipswich Town, England, Barcelona and Newcastle manager Sir Bobby Robson, who went to school there.