Kings Langley
Kings Langley is a historical village as well as civil church in Hertfordshire, England, 21 miles (34 kilometres) northwest of main London to the south of the Chiltern Hills and currently part of the London commuter belt. The town is split in between 2 local government districts by the River Gade with the larger western portion in the District of Dacorum and smaller sized component, to the eastern of the river, in 3 Rivers Area. It was when the location of Kings Langley Palace, an imperial palace of the Plantagenet kings of England. The 12th century parish church of All Saints' homes the tomb of Edmund of Langley (1341-- 1402), the initial Duke of York. It is 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) south of Hemel Hempstead and also 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) north of Watford. The place-name Langley is first proven right here in a Saxon charter of circa 1050, where it looks like Langalega. It is meant Langelai in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is recorded as Langel' Regis in 1254. The name implies 'long timber or clearing up'.
