MurrayvilleBritish Columbia

Murrayville is the historic heart of central Langley: the streets around the "Five Corners" roundabout, where Old Yale Road meets 216 Street and 48 Avenue. The Township's Community Plan treats it as one community on both sides of Fraser Highway, east of the City of Langley. Paul Murray pre-empted his farm here in 1874. Two heritage buildings still stand within a short walk of the roundabout: the Murrayville Community Hall at 21667 48 Avenue, 126 metres away, and the Traveller's Hotel at 21628 48 Avenue, 66 metres away. The hotel was built between 1885 and 1889 by Billy Murray and is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.

Not everything is a five-minute walk. Walking at 80 metres a minute over the road network, the Murrayville Town Pub is 14.5 minutes from Five Corners, the Outdoor Activity Park is 14 minutes, and MarketPlace IGA is 16.5 minutes. All three lie east of the village core. The W.C. Blair Recreation Centre is about 14 minutes on foot.

Langley Memorial Hospital is at 22051 Fraser Highway, 1.07 kilometres north-east of Five Corners, about four and a half street numbers east and not at the 216/48 corner. The walk is about 15 minutes to the nearest edge of the grounds, and the drive is 3.7 minutes with no traffic. Its 2021 emergency expansion raised treatment bays from 31 to 49 and trauma bays from one to two, a project of about $39 million.

Most homes are detached on R-1 lots. The median R-1 lot is 7,633 square feet, and within 600 metres of Five Corners it is 8,392. To the north-west the boundary takes in Langley Regional Airport, farmland and floodplain. The board figures on this page are for all of Langley, Murrayville included. A figure for one street is easy to pull when the time comes.

BC's Bill 44 / SSMUH framework (Township zoning amendments adopted November 18, 2024) allows up to four units on a lot that is under 4,050 m² (43,594 sq ft), serviced and not heritage-designated. In the Township's parcel data, 98.8% of Murrayville's R-1 and SR parcels are under that size. Servicing and heritage status are separate tests, so what a particular lot can hold is worth confirming with the Township.

Murrayville is in School District 35 (Langley). On the district’s catchment maps, Five Corners is in James Hill Elementary’s catchment, and the plan area west of 224 Street is in Langley Secondary’s. D.W. Poppy Secondary’s catchment starts east of 224 Street.

Simonds Elementary (catchment roughly 196 to 206 Street and 44 to 55 Avenue) is 2.9 km west of Five Corners, and Wix-Brown Elementary is about 5 km south-east; neither is the village school. Alex Hope Elementary is in Walnut Grove. Catchments change, so enter the exact address in the SD35 school locator.

Paul Murray pre-empted his farm at the crossing of the New Westminster–Yale Road and the trail in 1874. The Murrayville Community Plan sets one heritage conservation area around Murray’s Corner.

Two heritage buildings stand near the roundabout. The Murrayville Community Hall at 21667 48 Avenue dates to the 1920s or 1930s. The Traveller’s Hotel at 21628 48 Avenue was built between 1885 and 1889 by Billy Murray and is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.

The hall and the hotel are beside Five Corners. The rest of the village is a walk: measured at 80 metres a minute, the Town Pub (22070 48A Avenue) is 14.5 minutes, the Outdoor Activity Park 14 minutes and MarketPlace IGA (22259 48 Avenue) 16.5 minutes, all east of the core. The W.C. Blair Recreation Centre (wave pool and six 25 m lap lanes) is about 14 minutes away, and Ralph’s Farm Market on Fraser Highway, a Murrayville fixture since the early ’80s, now part of the Meridian Farm Market family, has long handled the real grocery run.

For green space, the Derek Doubleday Arboretum runs 22 acres along Fraser Creek off Fraser Highway, out toward the Langley City edge, a flat, boardwalked loop and the nearest sizable park, though it sits closer to the City than to the village core. The Salmon River watershed threading the wider area is one of the few fish-bearing streams left in Metro Vancouver, and the Province has committed $5M toward dike, culvert, and pump-station upgrades along the Glen Valley / Salmon River corridor (Fraser Valley Flood Mitigation program; Langley allocation confirmed in 2024).

With no traffic, the Highway 1 interchange at 200 Street is 10.6 km and 11.6 minutes from Five Corners, and the planned SkyTrain terminus at 203 Street in Langley City is 3.8 km and 5.2 minutes. Rush hour is longer, so test the drive at the time you would make it.

TransLink Route 560 runs between Langley Centre and Murrayville and stops at the hospital; Route 502 runs between Langley Centre and Surrey Central. The Surrey Langley SkyTrain extension ends at 203 Street in Langley City, and the project’s own site gives late 2029 as the anticipated in-service date. SkyTrain does not serve Murrayville directly.