Tring
Tring | ||
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Market town | ||
Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | TRING | |
Postcode district | HP23 | |
Dialling code | 01442 | |
Police | Hertfordshire | |
Fire | Hertfordshire | |
Ambulance | East of England | |
UK Parliament | ||
Website | www | |
Tring
Tring is linked to London by the
Toponymy
The name Tring is believed to derive from the Old English Tredunga or Trehangr, 'Tre' meaning 'tree' and the suffix 'ing' implying 'a slope where trees grow'.[4]
History
There is evidence of prehistoric settlement with Iron Age barrows and defensive embankments adjacent to The Ridgeway, and also later Saxon burials.[5] The town straddles the Roman road called Akeman Street, running through as the High Street. Tring was the dominant settlement in the area, being the primary settlement in the Hundred of Tring at the time of the Domesday Book (1086).[6] Tring had a large population and paid a large amount of tax relative to most settlements listed in that survey.[7] Landholdings included the manor of Treunga,[8] assigned to Count Eustace II of Boulogne by William the Conqueror.
In 1315 the town was granted a
Until 1440, there was a small village east of Tring called Pendley (or Penley, Pendele, or Pentlai). The landowner Sir Robert Whittingham received a grant of
Tring Park Mansion was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and was built in 1682 for the owner Henry Guy, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles II.[10] John Washington, the son of the Reverend Lawrence Washington and Amphyllis Twigden, was born and brought up in Tring. In 1656 he left Tring to go on a trading voyage to Virginia, but after a shipwreck on the Potomac River he remained in Virginia, married and started a family which eventually included his great-grandson, George Washington, the first President of the United States.[11] The town's prosperity was greatly improved at the start of the 19th century by the construction nearby of the Grand Junction Canal, and soon afterwards in 1835 the London and Birmingham Railway. Industries which benefited included flour milling, brewing, silk weaving, lace-making and straw plaiting.[5]
In 1835, the medieval Pendley Manor was destroyed by fire. A local landowner, Joseph Grout Williams, commissioned a new manor house to be built in Jacobean Revival style, and this building still stands today on Station Road.[12]
In 1836 Thomas Butcher, a
In the late 19th century the estate became the home of the
The former livestock market place is now the home of a weekly Friday market and a fortnightly Saturday farmers' market. Some of the former livestock pens have been retained. The old livestock market office is now the home of the Tring Local History Museum, which opened in September 2010.[16]
Governance
Tring is a part of the
Tring has three tiers of local government at parish (town), district, and county level: Tring Town Council,
Administrative history
Tring | |
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Urban District (1894–1974) | |
Council offices 1952–1974: 9 High Street, Tring | |
Population | |
• 1891 | 4,525[19] |
• 1971 | 8,815[20] |
History | |
• Created | 2 February 1859 (Local Government District) 31 December 1894 (Urban District) |
• Abolished | 31 March 1974 |
• Succeeded by | Dacorum |
• HQ | Tring |
Contained within | |
• County Council | Hertfordshire |
The parish of Tring formerly included a large rural area as well as the town itself, including
The "Upper Hamlet" of the parish of Tring, covering the town, was made a local government district with effect from 2 February 1859, governed by a
Tring Urban District Council held its first meeting on 3 January 1895 at the Vestry Hall in Church Yard. The first chairman was Frederick Butcher, who had been the last chairman of the old local board.[24] Tring Urban District Council continued to meet at the Vestry Hall until 1910, and had an office on Western Road.[25][26] It then moved its meeting place to the Market House at 61 High Street, which had been built between 1898 and 1900.[27][28] The council remained at Market House until 1952, when it moved to the former Tring Park estate office at 9 High Street, remaining there until the council's abolition.[29][30][31]
Tring Urban District was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the district of Dacorum on 1 April 1974. A successor parish was created for the former urban district, with its parish council taking the name Tring Town Council.[32] The former urban district council's offices at 9 High Street became private offices, with the building being renamed the Counting House. Tring Town Council is based at the Market House at 61 High Street.[33]
Geography
Tring is in west Hertfordshire, adjacent to the
The four
The civil parish includes the hamlets of Little Tring, New Mill and Bulbourne to the north of Tring and Hastoe to the south.
Climate
Climate data for Tring | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6 (43) |
7 (45) |
10 (50) |
12 (54) |
16 (61) |
19 (66) |
21 (70) |
22 (72) |
18 (64) |
14 (57) |
9 (48) |
6 (43) |
13 (55) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 3 (37) |
3 (37) |
4 (39) |
5 (41) |
8 (46) |
10 (50) |
12 (54) |
13 (55) |
11 (52) |
8 (46) |
5 (41) |
3 (37) |
7 (45) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 69.3 (2.73) |
59.4 (2.34) |
46.5 (1.83) |
70.1 (2.76) |
58.1 (2.29) |
58.9 (2.32) |
46.0 (1.81) |
68.9 (2.71) |
51.7 (2.04) |
84.3 (3.32) |
93.9 (3.70) |
80.9 (3.19) |
788.0 (31.02) |
Source: [37] |
Flour mill
Heygates Mill is a
In the days of the Tring windmill, only two men operated the system, milling ten stone per hour. Now, computerised, more than twelve tons per hour are produced. Heygate's Tring mill has 80 employees and sixteen trucks delivering throughout the south of England.
Economy
Pendley Manor, a hotel, conference and arts centre, is situated about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the town, near the railway station.
Tring Brewery has been operating in Tring since 1992.
The UK headquarters of Huel Ltd. is in Tring.[38][39]
Tring is home to the Tring Book Festival; a ten-day festival held in November. Tring is part of the Dacorum Local Food Initiative.
Media
Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC East and ITV Anglia. Television signals are received from the Sandy Heath TV transmitter, BBC South and ITV Meridian can also be received from the Oxford TV transmitter. [40] [41]
Tring's local radio stations are BBC Three Counties Radio, Heart Hertfordshire, Greatest Hits Radio Bucks, Beds and Herts (formerly Mix 96) and Tring Radio, a community based radio station that broadcast from the town. [42]
The town is served by the local newspaper,Hemel Hempstead Gazette & Express. [43]
Transport
Railway
History
The station was originally opened in 1837 by the
The remote location of Tring railway station was due to changes to the route of the railway imposed on Stephenson by local landowners such as Lord Brownlow, who wished to protect his Ashridge Estate.[45] The location is sometimes wrongly attributed to objections, which were said to have been made by Lord Rothschild to protect his land in Tring; in fact, Lord Rothschild was not born until 1840, three years after the railway had opened, and the Tring lands were only acquired by his father Lionel in 1872. He did, however, object to a much later plan to build a steam tramway between Tring station and Aylesbury.[46]
An extension of the Metropolitan Railway was once considered from Chesham, making Tring station the terminus, with connections to the main line companies serving the north; this project was not realised.[47]
Buses
Bus services in Tring are operated by Arriva, Red Rose Travel and Red Eagle. Key direct destinations include Aylesbury, Dunstable, Hemel Hempstead, Luton and Watford.
Roads
In 1973, the
Education
Tring School is a state secondary school and sixth form with approximately 1,500 pupils (ages 11–18). It is located on Mortimer Hill on the east side of the town. It is now designated a Specialist Humanities College with History, Geography and English as its lead subjects. It has had Academy status since September 2012.
Tring Park School for the Performing Arts (formerly known as the Arts Educational School, Tring Park) is an independent specialist performing arts and academic school. It is located in Tring Mansion, and has 300 pupils.
Tring has four state junior schools: Bishop Wood CE Junior School, Dundale Primary and Nursery School, Goldfield Infants and Nursery School and
Tring has a youth club – The Tring Youth Project – for those between 11 and 18 at the Temperance Hall in Christchurch Road.
Tring also has a theatre youth group, Court Youth Theatre, which is connected to the Court Theatre, Pendley Manor. This has three sections to it: juniors, intermediates and seniors.
There is also an air cadet squadron in Tring (2457 Squadron) on New Road.
Literature
Edward Lear makes reference to Tring in A Book of Nonsense:
There was an Old Person of Tring,
Who embellished his nose with a ring;
He gazed at the moon,
Every evening in June,
That ecstatic Old Person of Tring.[50]
In television
The 1980 television series, Shillingbury Tales was filmed in the village.
Sport
Tring Sports Centre is in the grounds of Tring School.
Tring is home to three football clubs: Tring Athletic, Tring Town and Tring Corinthians; all of which play in the Spartan South Midlands Football League. Tring Tornadoes is a youth football club, which field sides for boys and girls up to 16. The town is also home to a rugby club, Tring R.U.F.C., which won promotion to London Division One in 2008; Tring Hockey Club, with three men's and two ladies' sides; Tring Park Cricket Club, in the Home Counties Premier Cricket League; and a squash club
Notable people
- Sir Francis Verney (1584–1615), English adventurer and pirate.
- John Washington (1631–1677) great-grandfather of George Washington, the first President of the United States.[11]
- Sir William Gore (1643–1707), merchant and Lord Mayor of London. Subject of an impressive monument in the parish church.
- John Brown (1795–1890), brewer in Tring; he built and owned several public houses in the area.
- Gerald Massey (1828–1907) – poet, literary critic, Egyptologist and Spiritualist – was born nearby at Gamnel Wharf, New Mill, on the Wendover branch of the Grand Union Canal.[51]
- zoologist.
- First World War.[5]
- Roger Moorhouse, a British historian and author
- Serjeant at Arms of the British House of Commons lived at Kingsley Walk, Tring between 1977 and 1999, attending Dundale Junior and Tring Secondary Schools.[citation needed]
- Julian James, a former professional footballer.
- Graham Poll, an English former football referee for the Premier League and World Cup
- Gilbert Lacy (1834–1878), cricketer
- Arthur Butcher (1863–1955), cricketer
- Robert Holmes (scriptwriter) (1926–1986), television writer, notable for writing several episodes of Doctor Who, was born in Tring.
- Graham Barber, former Premiership referee and 2003 FA Cup Final referee, used to live in Tring.
Gallery
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High Street, Tring, Hertfordshire Architecture by William Huckvale (1848-1936).
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Church of St Peter and St Paul
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Tring Reservoirs at sunset
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Sign to the Zoological Museum
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