Kings Langley

Kings Langley
Kings Langley High Street, looking north.
Kings Langley Location within Hertfordshire
Population	5,072 (Census 2001) 5,214 (Census 2011)[1]
OS grid reference	TL067030
District	Dacorum
Shire county	Hertfordshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KINGS LANGLEY
Postcode district	WD4
Dialling code	01923
Police	Hertfordshire
Fire	Hertfordshire
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Hemel Hempstead
List of places UK England Hertfordshire 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, 21 miles (34 kilometres) north-west of Westminster in the historic centre 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".