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HHER Number:12533
Type of record:Monument
Name:WASTE AT LANGLEY HILL AND VICARAGE LANE, KINGS LANGLEY

Summary

Remnant of the formal avenue to Kings Langley Palace

Grid Reference:TL 069 026
Map Sheet:TL00SE
Parish:Kings Langley, Dacorum, Hertfordshire
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Monument Types

  • COMMON LAND (Historic: period uncertain - 410 AD to 1900 AD)
  • AVENUE (LANDSCAPE FEATURE) (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

Registered roadside common land, in several parts. NGR = approximate centre. Langley Hill was a wide formal avenue running up from the entrance at the High Street to the royal palace [96], the layout still showing well on the 1874 OS map <2>.


<1> Commons Register, CL212 (Digital archive). SHT2500.


<2> OS 25 inch map, 1st edition, 1873-4 (Cartographic material). SHT8116.

Sources and further reading

<1>Digital archive: Commons Register. CL212.
<2>Cartographic material: OS 25 inch map, 1st edition. 1873-4.

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96Part of: SITE OF ROYAL PALACE, THE NEW SCHOOL, KINGS LANGLEY (Monument)