East of England
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Three Rivers District

Abbots Langley

Abbots Langley is a large village and civil parish in the English county of . The only Englishman ever to have become pope, Pope Adrian IV, was born here as Nicholas Breakspear around the year 1100.
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  • Type: Village with 19,600 residents
  • Description: civil parish in Hertfordshire, England
  • Also known as: “Abbot’s Langley”, “Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire”, and “Langelai”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter and Kings Langley railway station.

is a walk-through exhibition and studio tour in , England, owned by Warner Bros. and operated by their Studio Tours division.

Railway station
Photo: Jack Hill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the villages of , Abbots Langley and , in , England. It is a stop on the West Coast Main Line, 21 miles north-west of .

Industrial building
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is an 80 ha studio complex in in , , in the . Formerly known as Leavesden Film Studios and still colloquially known as Leavesden Studios or simply Leavesden, it is a film and media complex owned by Warner Bros.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kings Langley and Garston.

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is a historic village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, 21 miles northwest of central London on the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills and now part of the London commuter belt.

Town
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is a suburban village in , England. is contiguous with and now, despite retaining a local identity, is effectively a suburb.

Village
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is a village in the county of , England, 4.2 miles south of city centre and 4.2 miles north-northeast of . is situated 2 miles east of Abbots Langley.

Abbots Langley

Latitude
51.7066° or 51° 42′ 24″ north
Longitude
-0.4178° or 0° 25′ 4″ west
Population
19,600
Elevation
420 feet (128 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB ABB
Open location code
9C3XPH4J+MV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304674894
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2657863
Wiki­data ID
Q19777
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Abbots Langley” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Abbosts-Lanqli”
  • Basque: “Abbots Langley”
  • Belarusian: “Эбатс-Ленглі”
  • Belarusian: “Эбатс-Лэнглі”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাবটস ল্যাঙ্গলি”
  • Catalan: “Abbots Langley”
  • Cebuano: “Abbots Langley”
  • Chinese: “兰利修道院”
  • Chinese: “蘭利修道院”
  • Chinese: “阿伯茨兰利”
  • Chinese: “阿伯茨蘭利”
  • Czech: “Abbots Langley”
  • Dutch: “Abbots Langley”
  • French: “Abbots Langley”
  • Galician: “Abbots Langley”
  • German: “Abbots Langley”
  • Gujarati: “એબોટ્સ લેંગ્લી”
  • Hebrew: “אבוטס לנגלי”
  • Irish: “Abbots Langley”
  • Italian: “Abbots Langley”
  • Japanese: “アボッツ・ラングリー”
  • Japanese: “アボッツ・ラングレー村”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬೊಟ್ಸ್ ಲ್ಯಾಂಗ್ಲೆ”
  • Korean: “애보트 랭글리”
  • Ladin: “Abbots Langley”
  • Latin: “Langley Abbatis”
  • Lithuanian: “Abots Lenglis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Abbots Langley”
  • Persian: “ابوتز لنگلی”
  • Polish: “Abbots Langley”
  • Portuguese: “Abbots Langley”
  • Russian: “Абботс-Лангли”
  • Sicilian: “Abbots Langley”
  • Slovenian: “Abbots Langley”
  • Spanish: “Abbots Langley”
  • Swedish: “Abbots Langley”
  • Tamil: “அப்பொட்ஸ் லாங்லீ”
  • Telugu: “అబోట్స్ లాంగ్లే”
  • Turkish: “Abbots Langley”
  • Ukrainian: “Ебботс-Ленглі”
  • Urdu: “ابوتس لانگلے”
  • Volapük: “Abbots Langley”
  • Welsh: “Abbots Langley”

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