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Kings Langley is a village, former manor and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, 23.5 miles (37.8 kilometres) north-west of London and to the south of the Chiltern Hills. It now forms part of the London commuter belt .
Benskins was the pre-eminent brewery in Watford, and Hertfordshire's biggest brewer until its acquisition by Ind Coope in 1957.. While Benskins has not existed as an independent company for over half a century, the brand continues to be well known in north London and Hertfordshire, through being used as a brand name on many tied houses into the 1990s, and in some cases later.
The remaining pubs are : The Kings Head: a 300-year-old grade II listed building which has now been refurbished as a restaurant and bar. In the years when the turnpike ran through Hunton Bridge it served as a coaching inn; the Kings Lodge, which was built in 1642 as a hunting lodge for King Charles I, also refurbished as a restaurant and bar.
For centuries Chipperfield was an outlying settlement of Kings Langley consisting only of scattered houses. The first documentary evidence of the name is found in 1316, when Edward II bequeathed 'the Manor House of Langley the closes adjoining together with the vesture of Chepervillewode for Fewel and other Necessaries' to the Dominican Black ...
Some pub chains in the UK adopt the same or similar names for many pubs as a means of brand expression. Examples include "The Moon Under Water", commonly used by the JD Wetherspoon chain (and inspired by George Orwell 's 1946 essay in the Evening Standard , " The Moon Under Water "), and the "Tap and Spile" brand name used by the now defunct ...
King's Langley Priory ruins depicted in 1844. Langley was founded in 1308 by Edward II in fulfilment of a vow made when in peril. On 1 December, the king made the friars a grant of £100 a year until further orders; on 20 December he gave them his garden near the church and land there for building, and the next day assigned to them as a dwelling until the priory could be built a place called ...
A pub’s clever promotion to give away free pints every time Nottingham Forest scored a goal backfired over the weekend when the team won 7-0. The atmosphere in The Gedling Inn, in Nottingham, on ...
The village has a school: Wareside Church of England Primary School; two locally well-known pubs: The Chequers Inn and The White Horse; and is renowned within the area for its legendary "Wareside Treaclemine". The Grade II Blakesware Manor was rebuilt in 1876-89 by George Devey in red-brick neo-Tudor style [4] and is set in extensive parkland.