Kings Langley
Kings Langley is a historic 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 currently part of the London traveler belt. The town is separated in between two local government districts by the River Gade with the bigger western portion in the Borough of Dacorum and also smaller sized component, to the east of the river, in Three Rivers Area. It was once the location of Kings Langley Palace, a royal palace of the Plantagenet kings of England. The 12th century parish church of All Saints' houses 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 also 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) north of Watford. The place-name Langley is first testified below in a Saxon charter of circa 1050, where it appears as Langalega. It is led to Langelai in the Domesday Book of 1086, and also is recorded as Langel' Regis in 1254. The name means 'long timber or clearing'.