Kings Langley
Kings Langley is a historical town and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, 21 miles (34 kilometres) northwest of central London to the south of the Chiltern Hills as well as now part of the London commuter belt. The village is separated between 2 local government districts by the River Gade with the bigger western part in the Borough of Dacorum as well as smaller component, to the eastern of the river, in 3 Rivers Area. It was when the place of Kings Langley Palace, an imperial palace of the Plantagenet kings of England. The 12th century parish church of All Saints' homes the burial place of Edmund of Langley (1341-- 1402), the first Duke of York. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hemel Hempstead and also 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) north of Watford. The place-name Langley is first proven here in a Saxon charter of circa 1050, where it appears as Langalega. It is spelt Langelai in the Domesday Book of 1086, as well as is recorded as Langel' Regis in 1254. The name suggests 'long wood or cleaning'.
