Kings Langley
Kings Langley is a historic village and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, 21 miles (34 km) northwest of main London to the south of the Chiltern Hills and also currently part of the London traveler belt. The town is separated between two local government areas by the River Gade with the bigger western part in the Borough of Dacorum as well as smaller sized part, to the east of the river, in 3 Rivers District. It was when the place of Kings Langley Palace, a royal 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 kilometres) north of Watford. The place-name Langley is first confirmed below in a Saxon charter of circa 1050, where it looks like Langalega. It is spelt Langelai in the Domesday Book of 1086, and also is recorded as Langel' Regis in 1254. The name means 'lengthy wood or clearing up'.