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Abbots Langley

January 01, 1970

Abbots Langley (/ˈæbəts ˈlæŋli/) is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Hertfordshire. It is an old settlement and is mentioned (under the name of Langelai) in the Domesday Book. Economically the village is closely linked to Watford and was formerly part of the Watford Rural District. Since 1974 it has been included in the Three Rivers district.

Abbots Langley
St Lawrence the Martyr Church, Abbots Langley
Abbots Langley
Location within Hertfordshire
Population19,574 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceTL095015
Civil parish
  • Abbots Langley
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townABBOTS LANGLEY
Postcode districtWD5
Dialling code01923
PoliceHertfordshire
FireHertfordshire
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Hertfordshire
51°42′04″N 0°24′58″W / 51.701°N 0.416°W / 51.701; -0.416

History edit

This village has had a long history of human habitation. The first traces of human habitation in the area were recorded by archaeologist Sir John Evans (1823–1908).[2] The village sits on a saucer of clay covered by a layer of gravel, and as a result water supply has never been a problem; records show that in earlier times water could be drawn from a well just 20 feet (6.1 m) deep.[citation needed]

In 1045 the Saxon thegn Ethelwine "the Black" granted the upper part of Langlai to St Albans Abbey as Langlai Abbatis (Latin for Langlai of the Abbot, hence "Abbot's Langley")[citation needed] the remainder being the king's Langlai. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 the village was inhabited by 19 families.[3]

The area was split into four manors: Abbots Langley, Langleybury, Chambersbury, and Hyde. In 1539, Henry VIII seized Abbots Langley and sold it to his military engineer Sir Richard Lee.[2] The Manor of Abbots Langley was bequeathed by Francis Combe in his will of 1641 jointly to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and Trinity College, Oxford. The manors of Langleybury and Chambersbury passed through the family of William Ibgrave, the king's embroider, and the Child family, and in 1711 were conveyed to Sir Robert Raymond then Solicitor General later Attorney General and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. On the death of his son without issue in 1756 the manors passed to the Filmer family. The Manor of Hyde passed to Edward Strong in 1714, through his daughter to Sir John Strange, who left the manor to be shared between his children and their descendants (including Admiral Sir George Strong Nares) and then to the possession of F.M. Nares & Co which sold the estate to the British Land Company in 1858.[4]

On Tibbs Hill Road there is a well-preserved example of a Prince Albert's Model Cottage. The original design and construction was for the Great Exhibition of 1851, to demonstrate model housing for the poor. Subsequently, the design was replicated in several other locations, including Abbots Langley.

Kitters Green developed as a separate hamlet by Manor House. The land between Kitters Green and Abbots Langley was bought from the estate of Sarah Smith by the British Land Company in 1866. It laid out plots for development along Adrian, Breakspear, Garden and Popes roads. The development of these plots led to the merger of the two settlements and the loss of Kitters Green's separate identity.[3]

The West Coast Main Line railway passes through the western edge of the parish, where it crosses Abbots Langley railway bridge, a skewed brick arch, and Nash Mills railway bridge, originally built in cast iron but strengthened in the 1960s by encasing it in concrete. Both bridges are original features from the London and Birmingham Railway. They date from 1837 and are both Grade II listed buildings.[5][6]

Sport edit

Abbots Langley Cricket Club and Langleybury Cricket Club are both based in the village. There are a number of football clubs, including Abbots Langley F.C., Ecocall F.C., Evergreen, Everett Rovers, and Bedmond F.C.[7]

People edit

See also edit

References edit

Footnotes
Notes
  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b Hastie, Scott (1993). Abbots Langley—A Hertfordshire Village. Abbots Langley: Abbots Langley Parish Council. ISBN 0-9520929-0-5.
  3. ^ a b Clark, Clive W. (1997). Abbots Langley Then 1760–1960. Cockfosters, Hertfordshire: Clive W. Clark. ISBN 0-9531473-0-4.
  4. ^ William Page, ed. (1908). "Abbots Langley". A History of the County of Hertford. Victoria County History. Vol. 2. pp. 323–328. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
  5. ^ Historic England. "Nash Mills railway bridge (1172991)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  6. ^ Historic England. "Bridge carrying railway over north end of road, Railway Terrace (1100891)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  7. ^ "TheFA.com – Find a Club". Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 23 May 2008.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g Hastie, Scott (1993). Abbots Langley—A Hertfordshire Village. Abbots Langley: Abbots Langley Parish Council. ISBN 0-9520929-0-5.
  9. ^ H. K. Moffatt, "Crighton, David George (1942–2000)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004.
  10. ^ Kenneth Garlick, "Evans, Dame Joan (1893–1977)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  11. ^ Yolanda Foote, "Evans, Sir John (1823–1908)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004.
  12. ^ Bannerman, B.W. (1904). Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica: Third Series. Vol 5. Mitchell Hughes and Clarke ISBN 978-1-4021-9409-2-p. 298.
  13. ^ Gentleman's Magazine, May 1805 Letter Christ Johnson May p. 405.
  14. ^ Davidson,L. A. F. (2004). "Greenhill, Thomas (fl. 1698–1732)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, [1] doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11428
  15. ^ The Times (17 October 1961). "Man in Court on A6 Charge"; p. 6; Issue 55214; col. D.
  16. ^ Barnes, James J.; and Patience P. Barnes (1987). James Vincent Murphy : Translator and Interpreter of Fascist Europe, 1880–1946. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 0-8191-6054-7.
  17. ^ Hastie, Scott (1996). A Hertfordshire Valley. Kings Langley: Alpine Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-9528631-0-3.
  18. ^ George Turnbull, C.E. 437-page memoirs published privately 1893; National Library Edinburgh; scanned copy in the British Library, London on compact disk. Many pages refer to when he lived in Abbots Langley.
  19. ^ Hastie, Scott (1993). Abbots Langley—A Hertfordshire Village. Abbots Langley: Abbots Langley Parish Council. ISBN 0-9520929-0-5. Rosehill was built in the 1820s and demolished c. 1952. The house stood on Gallows Hill where the Gade View flats are today.<...>Between 1875 and 1887, the house was home to George Turnbull whose wife survived him and lived on there until 1899.
  20. ^ Luncarty's Engineer: A short biography by John Andrews of Luncarty, West Stormont Historical Society, 2018, pp. 41–50, 51 pages.
  21. ^ "The Pirate Radio hall of fame, disc-jockeys of the 70's". offshoreradio.co.uk. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  22. ^ "British Listed Buildings". Retrieved 5 April 2011.

External links edit

  • Abbots Langley Parish Council
  • A History of the County of Hertford: Abbots Langley
  • Abbots Langley (A Guide to Old Hertfordshire)

January 01, 1970
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Abbots Langley ˈ ae b e t s ˈ l ae ŋ l i is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Hertfordshire It is an old settlement and is mentioned under the name of Langelai in the Domesday Book Economically the village is closely linked to Watford and was formerly part of the Watford Rural District Since 1974 it has been included in the Three Rivers district Abbots LangleySt Lawrence the Martyr Church Abbots LangleyAbbots LangleyLocation within HertfordshirePopulation19 574 2011 Census 1 OS grid referenceTL095015Civil parishAbbots LangleyDistrictThree RiversShire countyHertfordshireRegionEastCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townABBOTS LANGLEYPostcode districtWD5Dialling code01923PoliceHertfordshireFireHertfordshireAmbulanceEast of EnglandUK ParliamentWatfordList of places UK England Hertfordshire 51 42 04 N 0 24 58 W 51 701 N 0 416 W 51 701 0 416 Contents 1 History 2 Sport 3 People 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksHistory editThis village has had a long history of human habitation The first traces of human habitation in the area were recorded by archaeologist Sir John Evans 1823 1908 2 The village sits on a saucer of clay covered by a layer of gravel and as a result water supply has never been a problem records show that in earlier times water could be drawn from a well just 20 feet 6 1 m deep citation needed In 1045 the Saxon thegn Ethelwine the Black granted the upper part of Langlai to St Albans Abbey as Langlai Abbatis Latin for Langlai of the Abbot hence Abbot s Langley citation needed the remainder being the king s Langlai By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 the village was inhabited by 19 families 3 The area was split into four manors Abbots Langley Langleybury Chambersbury and Hyde In 1539 Henry VIII seized Abbots Langley and sold it to his military engineer Sir Richard Lee 2 The Manor of Abbots Langley was bequeathed by Francis Combe in his will of 1641 jointly to Sidney Sussex College Cambridge and Trinity College Oxford The manors of Langleybury and Chambersbury passed through the family of William Ibgrave the king s embroider and the Child family and in 1711 were conveyed to Sir Robert Raymond then Solicitor General later Attorney General and Lord Chief Justice of the King s Bench On the death of his son without issue in 1756 the manors passed to the Filmer family The Manor of Hyde passed to Edward Strong in 1714 through his daughter to Sir John Strange who left the manor to be shared between his children and their descendants including Admiral Sir George Strong Nares and then to the possession of F M Nares amp Co which sold the estate to the British Land Company in 1858 4 On Tibbs Hill Road there is a well preserved example of a Prince Albert s Model Cottage The original design and construction was for the Great Exhibition of 1851 to demonstrate model housing for the poor Subsequently the design was replicated in several other locations including Abbots Langley Kitters Green developed as a separate hamlet by Manor House The land between Kitters Green and Abbots Langley was bought from the estate of Sarah Smith by the British Land Company in 1866 It laid out plots for development along Adrian Breakspear Garden and Popes roads The development of these plots led to the merger of the two settlements and the loss of Kitters Green s separate identity 3 The West Coast Main Line railway passes through the western edge of the parish where it crosses Abbots Langley railway bridge a skewed brick arch and Nash Mills railway bridge originally built in cast iron but strengthened in the 1960s by encasing it in concrete Both bridges are original features from the London and Birmingham Railway They date from 1837 and are both Grade II listed buildings 5 6 Sport editAbbots Langley Cricket Club and Langleybury Cricket Club are both based in the village There are a number of football clubs including Abbots Langley F C Ecocall F C Evergreen Everett Rovers and Bedmond F C 7 People editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed September 2017 Learn how and when to remove this message Manuel Almunia born 1977 former professional footballer citation needed Nick Blinko born 1961 artist and singer songwriter guitarist of Rudimentary Peni Pope Adrian IV fl 1100 1159 born in Abbots Langley as Nicholas Breakspear James Cecil 1st Marquess of Salisbury 1748 1823 probably lived at Cecil Lodge 1760s 80 8 Violet Cressy Marcks 1895 1970 explorer and journalist lived at Hazelwood now Hunton Park 1930 70 8 David Crighton 1942 2000 mathematician educated at Abbots Langley primary school 9 Joan Evans art historian 1893 1977 historian of mediaeval art 10 John Evans archaeologist 1823 1908 archaeologist and geologist married and buried St Lawrence Church Abbots Langley 11 Elizabeth Greenhill 1615 1679 mother of 37 single births and one set of twins 12 13 Thomas Greenhill 1669 1740 surgeon to Henry Howard 7th Duke of Norfolk and 39th and last child of Elizabeth Greenhill 14 Michael Gregsten 1924 1961 physicist at the Road Research Laboratory victim of James Hanratty in the 1961 A6 murder for whose death he hanged 15 Ollie Halsall 1949 1992 influential rock jazz guitarist and vibraphone player lived here and recorded an album titled Abbot s Langley in 1980 Robert Kindersley 1st Baron Kindersley 1871 1954 businessman stockbroker merchant banker and public servant lived at Langley House 1906 23 8 Hugh Kindersley 2nd Baron Kindersley 1899 1976 Joe Lane 1892 1959 former professional footballer Marghanita Laski 1915 88 journalist and novelist lived at Abbots House 1937 45 8 Eryl McNally former Labour MEP Henry Montagu 6th Baron Rokeby 1798 1883 soldier lived at Hazelwood 1838 86 8 James Vincent Murphy 1880 1946 propagandist for Hitler that translated Mein Kampf while resident in Abbots Langley 16 Robert Raymond 1st Baron Raymond 1673 1733 politician and judge lived at Langleybury 1711 33 8 Haile Selassie 1892 1975 spent the early part of his exile from Ethiopia at Hazelwood 17 Edward Skoyles 1923 2008 researcher and quantity surveyor William Henry Smith politician 1825 91 member of the W H Smith station newsagent and bookselling family lived at Cecil Lodge 1864 70 8 George Turnbull 1809 1878 civil engineer the first railway engineer of India retired to Rosehill Abbots Langley 18 19 20 Bradley Walsh born 1960 entertainer lived in Breakspear Road Mark Walsh born 1965 professional darts player within the Professional Darts Corporation Nicky Stevens born 1951 singer with The Brotherhood of Man lived in Abbots Road Tom Hardy born 1954 disc jockey with Radio Caroline in the late 1970s lived in Parsonage Close 21 Liz Kendall born 1971 Labour MP lived in Langley Road Judy Grinham born 1939 former British competitive swimmer Olympic gold medallist and former world record holder lives in The Crescent KSI born 1993 rapper actor boxer and YouTube personality See also editBedmond Garston Manor a grade II listed 22 Georgian Country House located within the parish Hunton Bridge Kings Langley Langleybury Leavesden HospitalReferences editFootnotes Notes Civil Parish population 2011 Neighbourhood Statistics Office for National Statistics Retrieved 24 October 2016 a b Hastie Scott 1993 Abbots Langley A Hertfordshire Village Abbots Langley Abbots Langley Parish Council ISBN 0 9520929 0 5 a b Clark Clive W 1997 Abbots Langley Then 1760 1960 Cockfosters Hertfordshire Clive W Clark ISBN 0 9531473 0 4 William Page ed 1908 Abbots Langley A History of the County of Hertford Victoria County History Vol 2 pp 323 328 Retrieved 11 March 2009 Historic England Nash Mills railway bridge 1172991 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 28 February 2024 Historic England Bridge carrying railway over north end of road Railway Terrace 1100891 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 21 February 2024 TheFA com Find a Club Archived from the original on 9 May 2008 Retrieved 23 May 2008 a b c d e f g Hastie Scott 1993 Abbots Langley A Hertfordshire Village Abbots Langley Abbots Langley Parish Council ISBN 0 9520929 0 5 H K Moffatt Crighton David George 1942 2000 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press September 2004 Kenneth Garlick Evans Dame Joan 1893 1977 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 Yolanda Foote Evans Sir John 1823 1908 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press September 2004 Bannerman B W 1904 Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica Third Series Vol 5 Mitchell Hughes and Clarke ISBN 978 1 4021 9409 2 p 298 Gentleman s Magazine May 1805 Letter Christ Johnson May p 405 Davidson L A F 2004 Greenhill Thomas fl 1698 1732 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 1 doi 10 1093 ref odnb 11428 The Times 17 October 1961 Man in Court on A6 Charge p 6 Issue 55214 col D Barnes James J and Patience P Barnes 1987 James Vincent Murphy Translator and Interpreter of Fascist Europe 1880 1946 Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers ISBN 0 8191 6054 7 Hastie Scott 1996 A Hertfordshire Valley Kings Langley Alpine Press p 96 ISBN 0 9528631 0 3 George Turnbull C E 437 page memoirs published privately 1893 National Library Edinburgh scanned copy in the British Library London on compact disk Many pages refer to when he lived in Abbots Langley Hastie Scott 1993 Abbots Langley A Hertfordshire Village Abbots Langley Abbots Langley Parish Council ISBN 0 9520929 0 5 Rosehill was built in the 1820s and demolished c 1952 The house stood on Gallows Hill where the Gade View flats are today lt gt Between 1875 and 1887 the house was home to George Turnbull whose wife survived him and lived on there until 1899 Luncarty s Engineer A short biography by John Andrews of Luncarty West Stormont Historical Society 2018 pp 41 50 51 pages The Pirate Radio hall of fame disc jockeys of the 70 s offshoreradio co uk Retrieved 20 August 2021 British Listed Buildings Retrieved 5 April 2011 External links editAbbots Langley at Wikipedia s sister projects nbsp Media from Commons nbsp News from Wikinews nbsp Quotations from Wikiquote nbsp Texts from Wikisource nbsp Textbooks from Wikibooks nbsp Resources from Wikiversity nbsp Travel information from Wikivoyage Abbots Langley Parish Council History and Development of Abbots Langley Parish Church A History of the County of Hertford Abbots Langley Abbots Langley A Guide to Old Hertfordshire Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Abbots Langley amp oldid 1219351295, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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