Kings Langley
Kings Langley is a historic village as well as civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, 21 miles (34 km) northwest of central London to the south of the Chiltern Hills and also now part of the London commuter belt. The town is divided in between 2 local government districts by the River Gade with the bigger western part in the District of Dacorum and smaller sized part, to the east of the river, in 3 Rivers Area. It was once the place of Kings Langley Palace, an imperial palace of the Plantagenet kings of England. The 12th century parish church of All Saints' residences 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 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Watford. The place-name Langley is first confirmed below in a Saxon charter of circa 1050, where it appears as Langalega. It is meant Langelai in the Domesday Book of 1086, and also is recorded as Langel' Regis in 1254. The name means 'long wood or clearing up'.