page_title: Kings Langley
section_title: Mentions in literature
hierarchical_section_title: Kings Langley / Mentions in literature
caption_attribution_description: English: Kings Langley: Wind turbine RES (Renewable Energy Systems Ltd) purchased the old Ovaltine Egg Farm site in 2000, and converted the former chicken rearing house into a zero emissions building. The building is now named Beaufort Court and is RES's headquarters office. The building and the 225kW wind turbine were commissioned in November 2003, and the turbine has generated about 500,000 kWh of energy in the three years since. Also visible are a photovoltaic / thermal solar array set in the bank on the right side, and a biomass crop in the field. RES's website is here http://www.res-ltd.com/
context_page_description: Kings Langley is a historic village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, 21 miles northwest of central London to the south of the Chiltern Hills and now 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 once the location of Kings Langley Palace, a royal palace of the Plantagenet kings of England. The 12th-century parish church of All Saints' houses the tomb of Edmund of Langley, the first Duke of York.
  It is 2 mi south of Hemel Hempstead and 2 mi north of Watford.
  The place-name Langley is first attested here in a Saxon charter of circa 1050, where it appears as Langalega. It is spelt Langelai in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is recorded as Langel' Regis in 1254. The name means 'long wood or clearing'.
context_section_description: William Shakespeare's Richard II (1595), Act III, Scene IV, is set in the garden of the palace at Langley.
  Emily Sarah Holt's novel The White Rose of Langley (1875) has many scenes in the palace. (Download available at Project Gutenberg)
  In the 2010 book  Beautiful Darkness the character Olivia Durand is from Kings Langley.
  Mentioned by housekeeper Mrs Swabb in the 1973 play  Habeas Corpus written by Alan Bennett
caption: The wind turbine overlooking the former Ovaltine Model Dairy Farm, now the offices of Renewable Energy Systems Ltd.
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