Kings Langley
Kings Langley is a historical town and also civil parish 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 village is divided in between 2 city government areas by the River Gade with the bigger western portion in the District of Dacorum and smaller sized component, to the eastern of the river, in 3 Rivers District. It was once the place of Kings Langley Palace, a royal 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 first Duke of York. It is 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) south of Hemel Hempstead and 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 appears as Langalega. It is led to Langelai in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is recorded as Langel' Regis in 1254. The name means 'lengthy wood or cleaning'.