Kings Langley
| Kings Langley | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 43 ′ N , 0 ° 27 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 5072 (2001 Census) | ||
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| Post town | KINGS LANGLEY | ||
| ZIP code section | WD4 | ||
| prefix | 01923 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | East of England | ||
| Shire county | Hertfordshire | ||
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Dacorum Three Rivers |
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| British Parliament | Hemel Hempstead | ||
Kings Langley is a historic village and civil parish in Hertfordshire , England, 21 miles (34 km) north west of London on the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills and now part of the London Bacon Belt. The village is divided by the River Gade with the larger western part in the Borough of Dacorum and the smaller part in the Three Rivers District.
It was formerly the site of Kings Langley Palace , a royal palace of the Plantagenet kings of England. The 12th century parish church of All Saints houses the grave of Edmund of Langley (1341-1402), the first Duke of York.
The site is 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hemel Hempstead and 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Watford . The place name Langley is first recorded in a Saxon charter from around 1050, as Langalega.
economy
- In 1913, the first Ovaltine production facility outside of Switzerland was built in Kings Langley (see Wander AG ).
- Imagination Technologies , an English company specializing in the development and licensing of intellectual property, is based in Kings Langley.
Personalities
Sons and daughters
- Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341-1402)
- William Petrie (1821-1904), inventor
- John Milbank (* 1952), Anglican theologian
Other personalities
- Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York (around 1355-1392), Spanish nobleman and by marriage Duchess of York, was buried in January 1393 in Kings Langley Manor House
- Karl Höltermann (1894–1955), social democratic politician and journalist
