Kings Langley
Kings Langley is a historic village as well as civil church in Hertfordshire, England, 21 miles (34 kilometres) northwest of main London to the south of the Chiltern Hills as well as currently part of the London commuter belt. The town is divided between two 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 District. It was when the area of Kings Langley Palace, a royal palace of the Plantagenet kings of England. The 12th century parish church of All Saints' houses the burial place 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 proven below in a Saxon charter of circa 1050, where it looks like Langalega. It is led to Langelai in the Domesday Book of 1086, as well as is recorded as Langel' Regis in 1254. The name indicates 'lengthy timber or cleaning'.