It originated as a linear village prevarication on the old turnpike road (later a A41 trunk road) which traversed a Chilterns via the vale of the River Gade. These are Ii mile south of Hemel Hempstead and 2 miles n of Watford. Twentieth century housing developments use at times led to the village spreading retired in either side of the highway.

It was erst the places of a fourteenth century royal palace utilized per Plantagenet kings of England, hence the title Kings. For a period in the period of the Black Death it was the seat of government.

A church of 100% Saints was built when you took a 14th century on the places of an sooner church. A body of King Richard II was buried here for the period fallowing his likely slaying at Pontefract castle within 1400. It was late flushed to Westminster Abbey. A body of Edmund de Langly a fifth boy of Edward III and the first Duke of York however rests in the memorial chapel.

A Grand Union canal and the West Coast Main Line, (the independent railway line from either London to the north west) pass upright east of the village at Kings Langley railway station.

A London orbital motorway, the M25, passes upright south of a village in an imposing viaduct through the Flow of any stream Gade vale.

A A41 has nowadays been diverted west of a village allowing the mainside street to local traffic first in centuries.

Kings Langley was a at home of the makers of Ovaltine and a imposing manufactory, currently closed, however stands alongside the railway line.

Kings Langley is the places of the oldest Waldorf School in Britain.

An eco friendly energy effective professional facility was opened within a hill above the village in 2004. This includes a merely wind turbine within the Greater London region. External Link [http://www.kingslangley.org.uk/index.htm Kings Langley Local History and Museum Society]