Kings Langley
Kings Langley is a historical village as well as civil church in Hertfordshire, England, 21 miles (34 kilometres) northwest of central London to the south of the Chiltern Hills and currently part of the London commuter belt. The village is divided between 2 local government areas by the River Gade with the bigger western part in the Borough of Dacorum and smaller part, to the eastern of the river, in Three Rivers District. It was as soon as 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 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 looks like Langalega. It is spelt Langelai in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is recorded as Langel' Regis in 1254. The name indicates 'lengthy wood or cleaning'.