LANGHAM INDUSTRIES LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£44,748,960
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activities of the group in the year under review were those of a holding company and through its subsidiaries carries on the business of port operation, the manufacture and sale of marine propellers, shafting and sterngear, other marine engineering equipment, aerospace and industrial light alloy castings, industrial fasteners, precision machining and yacht services.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1980-04-18
- Employees
- 257 (2024 accounts · was 259 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Dower House, Bingham's Melcombe, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom, DT2 7PZ
- Postcode
- DT2 7PZ
- Capital
- 2,000,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 5 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-10-10
- Next due by
- 2026-10-24
Nature of business (SIC)
- 70100 Activities of head offices
Officers 8 current · 5 resigned
Group structure 6 subsidiaries
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NFF HOLDINGS LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA191132 (Tier 2), registered since 2016.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Political donations 17
£68,000 in registered political donations since 2003.
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UK Independence Party (UKIP)
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UK Independence Party (UKIP)
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UK Independence Party (UKIP)
Showing the 3 most recent of 17.
Source: the Electoral Commission's register of donations — this company's full record, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Gender pay gap
15%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Contact details
- Website
- langhamindustries.co.uk
A major UK engineering group renowned for delivering excellence in engineering and marine services.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| VACU-LUG INVESTMENTS LIMITED | 1981-12-31 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 23 similar companies in DT
The largest employer among its local peers (257 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1980.
Competitors Dorchester
This company ranks 1 among activities of head offices in Dorchester.
The class of 1980
49%
of the 8,850 companies incorporated in 1980 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 15 titles
- Freehold
- 11
- Leasehold
- 4
- Most recent registration
- 2024-08-06
- Price paid, where recorded
- £3,462,500
- Where
- Dorset (5), Devon (3), Bournemouth, Christchurch And Poole (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DT309176 | Dorset | Leasehold | 2024-08-06 | £677,500 |
| DT310107 | Dorset | Leasehold | 2024-08-06 | — |
| DT482138 | Dorset | Freehold | 2024-05-20 | — |
| DT480674 | Dorset | Freehold | 2024-02-16 | — |
| 215553 | Greater London | Freehold | 2023-05-04 | — |
| DT260658 | Bournemouth, Christchurch And Poole | Leasehold | 2021-07-19 | £2,010,000 |
| DT340071 | Bournemouth, Christchurch And Poole | Leasehold | 2021-07-19 | — |
| MS251762 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2019-05-09 | — |
| MS584375 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2019-05-09 | — |
| EX679472 | Essex | Freehold | 2018-09-04 | — |
| DT380580 | Dorset | Freehold | 2010-07-29 | £775,000 |
| EX547126 | Essex | Freehold | 1996-01-04 | — |
| DN156925 | Devon | Freehold | 1986-03-24 | — |
| DN155914 | Devon | Freehold | 1984-05-24 | — |
| DN136334 | Devon | Freehold | 1982-10-17 | — |
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