Abbots Langley is a village in Hertfordshire, England. Known to the Anglo-Saxons as Langelai, meaning "long clearing", Abbots Langley was separated from Kings Langley when a Saxon thegn granted the upper part of Langelai to the Abbot of St. Albans. The village came to be closely linked to Watford, and King Henry VIII seized Abbots Langley in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In 2011, Abbots Langley had a population of 19,574 people.
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