Tring Park
The Tring Park is a great noble estate near Tring in Hertfordshire , England .
history
The early history of the place has not been passed down exactly, although the estate was owned by the crown in the times of Charles I. When Charles II ascended the throne in 1660 during the Stuart Restoration , he transferred the property to his chamberlain, Henry Guy. Guy had a new mansion built based on a design by architect Christopher Wren . Shortly after Wilhelm III. of Orange and his wife Maria II. ascended the English throne in 1688 after the Glorious Revolution , Henry Guy was thrown into the Tower of London .
The property changed hands several times until it was leased by Nathan Mayer Rothschild in the 1830s . In May 1872, covering 4,000 acres (16 km²), it was bought by Baron Lionel de Rothschild for £ 230,000 and served as the Rothschild family's country residence . Rothschild had the manor house enlarged considerably to accommodate his guests. George Devey is considered to be the architect who changed Tring Park between 1874 and 1878 and transformed Christopher Wren's house into a French château with a mansard roof .
In 1889 the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum was established on the property, where Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, housed his vast collection of stuffed mammals, birds, reptiles and insect preparations. It was open to the public from 1892 and has been part of the Natural History Museum since 1937 .
The banking house N M Rothschild & Sons founded by Nathan Mayer Rothschild moved into the manor house in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War . The Arts Educational School has owned the Tring Villa since 1970.
In 1975 the Tring bypass road A41 (M) was opened, which divided the park in half.
Tring Park - Today
Today's Tring Park is part of the original property south of the A41 motorway. It is a public space owned by the Dacorum District Administration and administered by the Woodland Trust . Half of the 300 acres are hilly pastures . To the south and east of the park are the wooded escarpments of the Chiltern Hills , where the old carriage paths still exist today. One of them, the King's Ride, forms the Ridgeway National Trail . There are two monuments in this part of the park: an obelisk known locally as Nell Gwynn's Monument and a summer house.
Web links
- History of Tring Park (English)
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 9.6 " N , 0 ° 39 ′ 36" W.