Tring

51.796111111111 -0.65916666666667Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ N , 0 ° 40 ′ W

Tring

Tring is a small market town in the Chiltern Hills in Dacorum County, Hertfordshire , England . It is 50 kilometers north-west of London . The community is now largely for commuter belt within the metropolitan area of London and by the Akeman Street (an old Roman road ), the motorway A41, the Grand Union Canal and the railway line to Euston station connected to London. Tring has 13,000 inhabitants.

geography

Tring seen from the north

Tring lies at a low point in the Chiltern Hills, where the apex of the Grand Union Canal is. Large cuts were made for both the canal and the London- Euston - Watford - Bletchley - Northampton railway line . The railway line runs in a four-kilometer-long and an average of twelve-meter-deep indent near Tring. The construction work was immortalized on lithographs by the artist John Cooke Bourne during the 1830s . The four Tring Reservoirs - Wilstone, Tringford, Startops End and Marsworth - were built to supply the canal with water.

In 1955 the region was declared a national nature reserve and since 1987 it has been one of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest .

Close to the Chiltern Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , is Ashridge Park , administered by The National Trust . This is where the Ashridge Business School is located . Tring train station is about three kilometers from the town. The local bypass was the A41 (M) motorway from 1973 to 1987.

history

South side of Tring Park

The manor of Tring is already in the Domesday Book mentions of the 1086th In 1682, Christopher Wren designed the mansion , which was built for the first owner, Colonel Guy. A later tenant was Lawrence Washington, the great-grandfather of George Washington , the first President of the United States . In the late 19th century the property became the seat of the Rothschild family, who exerted a considerable influence on the Tring community.

Nathan Rothschild's son Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, established a private museum in Tring Park , which has been part of the Natural History Museum since 1937 as the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum . In April 2007 the name of the museum was changed to Natural History Museum at Tring to make visitors more aware of the connection with the London Museum of Natural History. The museum has one of the largest bird collections in the world (1,150,000 museum pieces, including 300,000 bellows, 2,000 dermoplastics and 200,000 eggs, plus skeletons, nests and moist specimens) and is of great scientific importance due to the numerous type specimens.

In 1902, on Rothschild’s initiative, the dormouse ( Glis glis ) was released in Tring Park and the Chiltern Hills. Rothschild was known for driving through Tring in an open carriage pulled by a team of zebras. Since then a zebra head has been the symbol of the city.

Sports

The Tring Sports Center is located on the property of the Tring School. The two football clubs Tring Athletic and Tring Corinthians both play in the Spartan South Midlands Football League . The Tring Rugby Union Football Club plays in the second London Rugby -Liga.

Local economy

The retail chains Tesco , The Co-operative Group and Marks & Spencer are represented in town. The Tring brewery has been producing ale since 1992 . Heygates Mill , originally a windmill , is a flour mill . The first mill owner was William Mead. In 1910 the windmill was demolished to make way for a silo . William Mead lived in a stately house near the mill. He owned half of the area that is now occupied by the mill. The other half was owned by the Bushell Brothers boat building company , which built narrowboats there. In 1945 the Heygate family took over William Mead's company. Today 100,000 tons of grain are ground in the mill annually with a yield of 76,000 tons of flour. As in the previous days of the Tring windmill, only two men are needed to operate the mill system. While half a ton of flour was produced per hour in the past, today's output is more than twelve tons per hour thanks to the full automation .

Heygates Mill has 80 employees. Sixteen trucks deliver to companies and private customers throughout southern England.

education

The Tring School (for 11 to 18 year olds) is on Mortimer Hill. The Arts Education School is an independent school in Tring Park.

Personalities

Sons and daughters

James Edgar Dandy (1903–1976), English botanist
Gerald Massey (1828–1907), British poet , Egyptologist and literary critic
Graham Poll (* 1963), former British FIFA - football referee

Web links

Commons : Tring - collection of images, videos and audio files