Kings Langley

Kings Langley is a historic village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, 21 miles ( 34 km) northwest of London on the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills and now part of the London commuter belt. The village is split by the River Gade with the larger western part of the Borough of Dacorum and the smaller part in the Three Rivers District.

It was formerly the location of Kings Langley Palace, a Royal palace of the Plantagenet kings of England. The parish church of All Saints in the 12th century, the grave of Edmund of Langley ( 1341-1402 ), the first Duke of York.

The place is located 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hemel Hempstead and 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Watford. The place name Langley is first detected in a Saxon charter of circa 1050, as Langalega.

Economy

Personalities

Sons and daughters

  • Edmund of Langley (1341-1402), 1st Duke of York
  • William Petrie (1821-1904), inventor

Other personalities

  • Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York buried (around 1355-1392 ), Spanish nobleman and by marriage Duchess of York, was established in January 1393 in Kings Langley Manor House
  • Karl Höltermann (* 1894 in Pirmasens, † 1955 in Kings Langley ), Social Democratic politician and journalist
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