Kings Langley

Kings Langley
Kings Langley High Street, looking north.
Kings Langley is located in Hertfordshire
Kings Langley
Kings Langley
Location within Hertfordshire
Population5,072 (Census 2001)
5,214 (Census 2011)[1]
OS grid referenceTL067030
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townKINGS LANGLEY
Postcode districtWD4
Dialling code01923
PoliceHertfordshire
FireHertfordshire
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
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51°42′56″N 0°27′25″W / 51.71559°N 0.45692°W / 51.71559; -0.45692

Kings Langley is a village, former manor and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, 23.5 miles (37.8 kilometres) north-west of London and to the south of the Chiltern Hills. It now forms part of the London commuter belt. The village is divided between two local government districts by the River Gade with the larger western portion in the Borough of Dacorum and smaller part, to the east of the river, in Three Rivers District. It was the location of Kings Langley Palace and the associated King's Langley Priory, of which few traces survive.

It is situated 2 mi (3 km) south of Hemel Hempstead and 2 mi (3 km) north of Watford.

The earliest mention in surviving documents of the manor of Langalega is in a Saxon charter dated circa 1050. It appears as Langelai in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is recorded as Langel' Regis ("Langley of the King") in 1254. The name means "long wood or clearing".

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 October 2016.