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{{Short description|Market town in Hertfordshire, England}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}
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|country        = England
|type           = Market town
|static_image_name = Tring High Street.jpg
|static_image_caption = Tring High Street
|official_name  = Tring
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|population     = 12,427
|population_ref = <ref>ONS, [https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_pp Census 2021 Parish Profiles]</ref>
|area_total_km2 = 36.21
|population_density = {{convert|321.32|/km2|/sqmi|abbr=on}}
|civil_parish = Tring
|shire_district = [[Dacorum]]
|shire_county   = [[Hertfordshire]]
|region         = East of England
|constituency_westminster = [[Harpenden and Berkhamsted]]
|post_town      = TRING
|postcode_district = HP23
|postcode_area  = HP
|dial_code      = 01442
|os_grid_reference = SP924117
|website        = {{URL|http://www.tring.gov.uk}}
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'''Tring''' {{IPAc-en|t|r|ɪ|ŋ}} is a market town and [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the Borough of [[Dacorum]], [[Hertfordshire]], [[England]]. It is situated in a gap passing through the [[Chiltern Hills]], classed as an [[Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty]], {{convert|30|mi|-1}} from [[Central London]]. 

Tring is linked to London by the [[Roman road]] of [[Akeman Street]], by the modern [[A41 road]], by the [[Grand Union Canal]] and by the [[West Coast Main Line]] to [[Euston railway station|London Euston]]. Settlements in Tring date back to [[Prehistoric Britain|prehistoric times]] and it was mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]]; the town received its market charter in 1315.<ref name="tringcharter700" /> Tring is now largely a [[commuter town]] within the [[London commuter belt]].
As of 2021, Tring had a population of 12,427.<ref>ONS, [https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_pp Census 2021 Parish Profiles]</ref>

==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'.<ref>{{cite book |first=Eilert |last=Ekwall |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Placenames |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |date=1977 |isbn=0198691033}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:SS Peter and Paul, Tring from the Rose and Crown - geograph.org.uk - 706204.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Church of St Peter and St Paul, Tring]], viewed from the Rose and Crown]]
[[File:Tring High Street, 19th century.jpg|thumb|left|Tring High Street in the 19th century]]
There is evidence of [[Prehistoric Britain|prehistoric settlement]] with [[Iron Age]] [[Tumulus|barrows]] and defensive embankments adjacent to [[The Ridgeway]], and also later Saxon burials.<ref name="thisisTring">{{cite web |url=http://gerald-massey.org.uk/tring/ |title=This is Tring |website=Gerald-Massey.org.uk |access-date=30 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130414081350/http://gerald-massey.org.uk/tring/ |archive-date=2013-04-14}}</ref> 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 ''[[List of hundreds of England|Hundred of Tring]]'' at the time of the [[Domesday Book]] (1086).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://domesdaymap.co.uk/hundred/tring/|access-date=3 April 2015|title=Hundred: Tring  |website=Domesdaymap.co.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008183236/http://domesdaymap.co.uk/hundred/tring/|archive-date=8 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Tring had a large population and paid a large amount of tax relative to most settlements listed in that survey.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP9211/tring/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150416185334/http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP9211/tring/|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 April 2015|title=Place: Tring |website=Domesdaymap.co.uk |access-date=3 April 2015}}</ref> Landholdings included the manor of Treunga,<ref name="british-history.ac.uk"/> assigned to [[Eustace II, Count of Boulogne|Count Eustace II of Boulogne]] by [[William the Conqueror]].

In 1315, the town was granted a [[market charter]] by [[Edward II of England|Edward II]]. This charter gave [[Faversham Abbey]] the right to hold weekly markets on Tuesdays, and a ten-day fair starting on 29 June, the [[Feast of Saints Peter and Paul]]. It also prevented the creation of any rival markets within a day's travel of the town.<ref name="tringcharter700">Tring Charter 700. ''Tring Town Crier'', April 2015</ref> The tower of the Church of St Peter and St Paul was built between 1360 and 1400.<ref name="tringcharter700"/>

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 [[free warren]] from [[Henry VI of England|King Henry VI]]. He [[enclosure|enclosed]] 200 acres (about 80 hectares) and tore down the buildings on the land, returning the estate to [[pasture]], and built a manor house, [[Pendley Manor]]. This house was variously inhabited by the [[Verney family|Verney]], [[Anderson baronets|Anderson]] and [[House of Harcourt|Harcourt]] families until the mid-19th century.<ref name="HertsGene">{{cite web |title=Pendley Manor  |url=http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/places-t/tring/tring-pendley.htm |website=Hertfordshire Genealogy|access-date=27 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027094921/http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/places-t/tring/tring-pendley.htm|archive-date=27 October 2017|date=July 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[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 of England|Charles II]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Colvin |first=Howard |title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects |edition=3rd |date=1995}} ''s.v.'' "Wren, Sir Christopher": "probably c. 1680". Remodelled 1872 onwards. A surviving obelisk and temple portico in the park are presumably by [[James Gibbs]], for William Gore (Colvin, ''s.v.'' "Gibbs, James").</ref> [[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]].<ref name="washingtonsoftring">{{cite web|url=http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/books/books-6/book-0632-washingtons-of-tring.htm |title=The Washingtons of Tring |first=Murray |last=Neil |website=Hertfordshire Genealogy|access-date=3 April 2015}}</ref>
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|flour milling]], [[brewing]], [[silk|silk weaving]], [[lace|lace-making]] and [[straw plaiting]].<ref name="thisisTring" />

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 [[Jacobethan|Jacobean Revival style]], and this building still stands today on Station Road.<ref name="Ourhist">{{cite web|title=Our Story|url=http://www.pendley-manor.co.uk/about-pendley-manor/our-story/|website=Pendley Manor|access-date=27 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027110057/http://www.pendley-manor.co.uk/about-pendley-manor/our-story/|archive-date=27 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1836 Thomas Butcher, a [[wholesale]] [[seed]] and [[Cereal|corn]] [[merchant]], and his son also called Thomas, established a [[private bank]], Thomas Butcher & Son in Tring High Street. The business was subsequently run by the next generation of the family, Frederick and George, and was also known locally as Tring Old Bank. By 1900 it had branches in [[Aylesbury]], [[Chesham]] and [[Berkhamsted]]. From this time it became the subject of successive bank consolidations, eventually becoming a branch of the [[NatWest|National Westminster Bank]], the last to be represented in the town.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/wiki/Thomas_Butcher_%26_Sons%2C_Tring%2C_c.1836-1900 |title=Thomas Butcher & Sons, Tring, c.1836–1900 |website=RBS Heritage Online |access-date=29 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120520235829/http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/wiki/Thomas_Butcher_%26_Sons%2C_Tring%2C_c.1836-1900 |archive-date=20 May 2012}}</ref>

[[File:The Market House, Tring - geograph.org.uk - 1478727.jpg|thumb|left|[[Tring Market House]]]]
[[File:Walter-zebra-cart 11173 2.jpg|thumb|Walter Rothschild and his carriage drawn by zebras]]
In the late 19th century, the estate became the home of the [[Rothschild family]], whose influence on the town was considerable. The site for [[Tring Market House]] was presented by to the town by [[Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tringlocalhistory.org.uk/Kelly%201937/index.htm|title=Tring|publisher=Kelly's Directory for Hertfordshirew|year=1937|access-date=9 October 2021}}</ref> His son, [[Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild]], built a private zoological museum in Tring. This housed what may have been the world's largest collection of animal taxidermy at the time of its founding. It has been part of the [[Natural History Museum, London]] since 1937, and in April 2007 the museum changed its name to the [[Natural History Museum at Tring]] in order to make people more aware of the museum's link to London's Natural History Museum. In 1902 the 2nd Lord Rothschild also released the [[edible dormouse]] (Glis glis) into Tring Park. He used to ride around the town in a carriage drawn by [[zebra]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/tring/history-collections/index.html |title=Zebra-drawn carriage driven by Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild |website=National History Museum, Tring |access-date=11 June 2009}}</ref> In the town centre of Tring there is a pavement maze in the shape of a Zebra's head in order to remember the link that Tring has to the Rothschild family.

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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tringlocalhistorymuseum.org.uk/index.html |title=Home| website=Tring Local History Museum |access-date=9 October 2010}}</ref>

==Governance==
Tring is a part of the [[UK]] Parliament [[constituency]] of [[Harpenden and Berkhamsted (UK Parliament constituency)|Harpenden and Berkhamsted]]. [[Victoria Collins]] has been the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) since the July [[2024 United Kingdom general election|2024 election]].<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|url=http://bbc.com/news/politics/constituencies/E14000951|title=Hertfordshire South West parliamentary constituency – Election 2019|publisher=BBC News|access-date=14 December 2019}}</ref>

Tring has three tiers of local government at parish (town), district, and county level: Tring Town Council, [[Dacorum Borough Council]], and [[Hertfordshire County Council]]. Since the local elections on 2 May 2019, Tring Town Council comprises 11 [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]] and 1 [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Town & Parish Elections – Thursday, 2nd May, 2019|url=https://democracy.dacorum.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?ID=500000001&V=1&RPID=503418497|website=Dacorum| date=2 May 2019 }}</ref>

===Administrative history===
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|Name=Tring
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The parish of Tring formerly included a large rural area as well as the town itself, including [[Long Marston, Hertfordshire|Long Marston]] and [[Wilstone]]. The parish was administered by its [[vestry]], in the same way as most small towns and rural areas. It was included in the [[Berkhamsted]] [[Poor Law Union]] from 1835.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Higginbotham |first1=Peter |title=Berkhamsted Workhouse |url=https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Berkhampstead/ |website=The Workhouse |access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>

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 [[local board of health|local board]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Local Government Act, 1858: Notice of adoption |journal=London Gazette |date=18 January 1859 |issue=22220 |page=176 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22220/page/176 |access-date=16 January 2021}}</ref> Following the [[Public Health Acts|Public Health Act 1872]], such local government districts were also called [[sanitary district|urban sanitary districts]]. Under the [[Local Government Act 1894]], urban sanitary districts became [[urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|urban districts]] on 31 December 1894. The 1894 Act also stipulated that a parish could not be partly in an urban district and partly outside it. The old parish of Tring was therefore split, with the part outside the urban district becoming a separate parish called [[Tring Rural]] with effect from its first parish meeting on 4 December 1894. The Tring Rural Parish, covering Long Marston, Wilstone and the surrounding areas, was included in the [[Berkhamsted Rural District]].<ref>Local Government Act 1894, 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tring Urban Council |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=16 January 2022 |work=Bucks Herald |date=5 January 1895 |location=Aylesbury |page=8}}</ref> Tring Urban District Council continued to meet at the Vestry Hall until 1910, and had an office on Western Road.<ref>{{cite book |title=Kelly's Directory of Hertfordshire |date=1914 |location=London |page=251}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tring: Urban District Council |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=16 January 2022 |work=Bucks Herald |date=5 July 1919 |location=Aylesbury |page=8}}</ref> It then moved its meeting place to the [[Tring Market House|Market House]] at 61 High Street, which had been built between 1898 and 1900.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1083558|desc=The Market House|fewer-links=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tring: Urban District Council |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=16 January 2022 |work=Bucks Herald |date=6 December 1919 |location=Aylesbury |page=8}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1078033|desc=9 High Street|fewer-links=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tring Council to have new offices |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=16 January 2022 |work=Bucks Herald |date=9 November 1951 |location=Aylesbury |page=6}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Milestone in council's history |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=16 January 2022 |work=Bucks Herald |date=10 October 1952 |location=Aylesbury |page=8}}</ref>

Tring Urban District was abolished under the [[Local Government Act 1972]], becoming part of the [[non-metropolitan district|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.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Local Government (Successor Parishes) Order |date=1973 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |location=London |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/1110/made |access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tring Town Council |url=https://www.tring.gov.uk/contact-information/ |access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>

==Geography==
[[File:Tring looking North.jpg|thumb|View over Tring, looking north]]
Tring is in west Hertfordshire, adjacent to the [[Buckinghamshire]] border, at a low point in the Chiltern Hills known as the 'Tring Gap'. This has been used as a crossing point since ancient times, being at the junction of the [[Icknield Way]] and under the Romans [[Akeman Street]], the major [[Roman road]] linking London to [[Cirencester]]. It is transected east and west by the ancient earthwork called [[Grim's Ditch|Grim's Dyke]].<ref name="british-history.ac.uk">{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43280&strquery=Tring |chapter=Parishes: Tring with Long Marston |editor-first=William |editor-last=Page |date=1908 |title=A History of the County of Hertford (Volume II) |location=London, UK |publisher=Victoria County History |pages=281–294 |access-date=11 March 2010}}</ref> It is located at the summit level of the [[Grand Union Canal]] and both the canal and railway pass through in deep cuttings. [[Tring railway cutting]] is {{convert|2.5|mi|km|abbr=on}} long and an average of {{convert|39|ft|m|abbr=on}} deep and is celebrated in a series of coloured lithographs by [[John Cooke Bourne]] showing its construction in the 1830s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=842 |title=Tring Cutting |website=Engineering-timelines.com |access-date=2013-10-18}}</ref>

The four [[Tring Reservoirs]] – Wilstone, Tringford, Startops End and Marsworth – were built to supply water for the canal. These have been a national nature reserve since 1955, and identified as a [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]] since 1987.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tringreservoirs.com/about/ |title=All about Tring Reservoirs |date=2007 |website=British Waterways |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312005459/http://www.tringreservoirs.com/about/ |archive-date=12 March 2009}}</ref> Nearby, within the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chilternsaonb.org |title=Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |website=ChilternsANOB.org |access-date=2013-10-18}}</ref> that almost surrounds the town, is the [[Ashridge Estate]], part of the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] and home to [[Ashridge Business School]].

The civil parish includes the hamlets of Little Tring, New Mill and Bulbourne to the north of Tring and [[Hastoe]] to the south.

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==Flour mill==

Heygates Mill is a [[flour mill]]. Originally it was a windmill, and the company was run by William Mead. The windmill was demolished in 1910 to make way for a wheat [[storage silo]]. In those days, Mead lived on-site, in a house next to the yard, and owned half the area taken by the mill of today. The remaining space was occupied by boat-builders, Bushell Brothers, who built [[narrowboat]]s for the canal. The Heygate family took over Mead's business in 1945, and today mills 100,000 tons of wheat a year, resulting in 76,000 tons of flour. This is mainly bakers' flour, but there is also a commitment to wholemeal digestive for biscuits, bulk outlets and a large output of 1.5&nbsp;kg bags from the pre-packed flour plant.

In the days of the Tring windmill, only two men operated the system, milling ten [[Stone (unit)|stone]] per hour. Now, computerised, more than twelve [[ton]]s per hour are produced. Heygate's Tring mill has 80 employees and sixteen trucks delivering throughout the [[Southern England|south of England]].

==Economy==

[[File:Pendley Manor Hotel - geograph.org.uk - 787469.jpg|thumb|[[Pendley Manor]]]]

[[Pendley Manor]], a hotel, conference and arts centre, is situated about {{convert|1|mi}} east of the town, near the railway station.

[[Tring Brewery]] has been operating in Tring since 1992.

The UK headquarters of [[Huel|Huel Ltd.]] is in Tring.<ref>{{cite web |title=Huel Press Room |url=https://uk.huel.com/pages/press-page |access-date=8 January 2022 |website=uk.huel.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=HUEL LIMITED overview |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07907551 |access-date=8 January 2022 |website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk}}</ref>

Tring is home to the Tring Book Festival; a two-week 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 transmitting station|Sandy Heath]] TV transmitter, [[BBC South]] and [[ITV Meridian]] can also be received from the [[Oxford transmitting station|Oxford]] TV transmitter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Sandy_Heath|title=Full Freeview on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=2 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Oxford|title=Full Freeview on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate= 2 October 2023}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tringradio.co.uk/|title=Tring Radio|access-date=2 October 2023}}</ref>

The town is served by the local newspaper, [[Hemel Hempstead Gazette & Express]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-eang/hemel-hempstead-gazette/|title=Hemel Hempstead Gazette|date=23 April 2014|website=British Papers|accessdate=2 October 2023}}</ref>

==Transport==
===Railway===
[[File:London Midland train at Tring Station.jpg|thumb|A [[London Midland]] train at Tring railway station]]

[[Tring railway station]] is located about {{convert|2|mi}} east of the town and lies on the [[West Coast Main Line]]. It is served by [[West Midlands Trains|London Northwestern]] services from {{rws|Milton Keynes Central}} to [[Euston railway station|London Euston]]; in addition, [[Southern (train operating company)|Southern]] operates the cross-London service to {{rws|East Croydon}} via {{rws|Clapham Junction}}. The station is served by slow and semi-fast trains. 

====History====
[[File:Tring Cutting, 1839.jpg|thumb|Lithograph entitled ''Tring Cutting'' by John C. Bourne (1839) illustrating the excavation near Tring for the London and Birmingham Railway]]

The station was originally opened in 1837 by the [[London & Birmingham Railway]], under the direction of the railway engineer [[Robert Stephenson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10302327 |title='Tring Cutting', Hertfordshire, 17 June 1837 |website=Science & Society Picture Library |access-date=5 April 2015}}</ref>

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 [[John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow|Lord Brownlow]], who wished to protect his [[Ashridge]] Estate.<ref name=Birtchnell>{{cite book|last=Birtchnell|first=Percy|title=A Short History of Berkhamsted|year=1960|chapter=Our Communications|publisher=Book Stack |isbn=978-1-87137-200-7}}</ref> The location is sometimes wrongly attributed to objections, which were said to have been made by [[Nathan Mayer Rothschild|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 de Rothschild|Lionel]] in 1872. He did, however, object to a much later plan to build a steam tramway between Tring station and {{rws|Aylesbury}}.<ref name=austin>{{cite web |title=The Railway Comes To Tring: 1835–1846 |url=https://tringlocalhistory.org.uk/Railway_local/index.htm |access-date=3 April 2021 |last1=Austin |first1=Wendy |last2=Petticrew |first2=Ian |date=November 2013 |website=TringLocalHistory.org.uk}}</ref>

An extension of the [[Metropolitan Railway]] was once considered from {{lus|Chesham}}, making Tring station the terminus, with connections to the main line companies serving the north; this project was not realised.<ref>{{cite book|first=Clive |last=Foxell |title=Chesham Shuttle |edition=2 |year=1996 |publisher=Clive Foxell |location=Chesham |isbn=0-9529184-0-4|page=32}}</ref>

===Buses===
Bus services in Tring are operated by [[Arriva UK Bus|Arriva]], Red Rose Travel and Red Eagle. Key direct destinations include [[Aylesbury]], [[Dunstable]], [[Hemel Hempstead]], [[Luton]] and [[Watford]].  

===Roads===
In 1973, the [[A41 road|A41]] Tring [[Bypass (road)|bypass]] was opened.<ref name=prince>{{cite book |last=Prince |first=Hugh |title=Parks in Hertfordshire since 1500 |year=2008|publisher=Hertfordshire Publications |location=Hatfield|isbn=9780954218997|page=270}}</ref> The bypass runs through [[Tring Park]] and was originally conceived as the first stretch of a new [[motorway]], the A41(M), which was planned to run from the M25 at [[Hunton Bridge]] to Aylesbury; the project was not realised and the bypass was downgraded to [[trunk road]] status. In 1993, the A41 bypass was extended with {{convert|12|mi}} of grade-separated dual carriageway that links the Tring bypass to the M25.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

==Education==
{{See also|Primary schools in Dacorum#Tring}}
[[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 Park Mansion|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 [[Grove Road Primary School]].

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]]'':

{{poemquote|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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lear|first1=Edward |title=A Book of Nonsense |date=1846 |publisher=Thomas McLean |location=London}}</ref>}}

==In television==

The 1980 television series, ''[[Shillingbury Tales]]'' was filmed in the village.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

==Sport==
Tring Sports Centre is in the grounds of [[Tring School]].

Tring is home to three [[association football|football]] clubs: [[Tring Athletic F.C.|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==
*[[Francis Verney|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]].<ref name="washingtonsoftring"/>
*Sir [[William Gore (Lord Mayor of London)|William Gore]] (1643–1707), merchant and Lord Mayor of London. Subject of an impressive monument in the parish church.
*[[John Brown (brewer)|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 [[Spiritualism (movement)|Spiritualist]] – was born nearby at Gamnel Wharf, New Mill, on the [[Wendover]] branch of the Grand Union Canal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.information-britain.co.uk/famousbrits.php?id=2729 |title=Gerald Massey |website=Information-britain.co.uk}}</ref>
*[[Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild]] (1868–1937), banker, politician and [[zoologist]].
*[[Edward Barber (VC)|Edward Barber]] (10 June 1893 – 12 March 1915) born and lived in Tring, was posthumously awarded the [[Victoria Cross]] for bravery during the [[Battle of Neuve Chapelle]] in the [[First World War]].<ref name="thisisTring" />
*[[Roger Moorhouse]], a British historian and author
*[[Lawrence Ward (Serjeant at Arms)|Lawrence Ward]], former [[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|date=April 2017}}
*[[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 [[Premier League|Premiership]] referee and 2003 FA Cup Final referee, used to live in Tring.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:High Street, Tring, Hertfordshire - geograph.org.uk - 1482029.jpg|High Street, Tring, Hertfordshire Architecture by William Huckvale (1848–1936).
Image:Tringchurch00106.jpg|Church of St Peter and St Paul
File:Tring Reservoirs sunset.jpg|[[Tring Reservoirs]] at sunset
Image:Zoological Museum sign.jpg|Sign to the Zoological Museum
File:Tringpark00106.jpg|[[Tring Park]]
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Sister project links|Tring|voy=Tring}}
*[http://www.tring.gov.uk Tring Town Council]

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|Northwest = [[Long Marston, Hertfordshire|Long Marston]], [[Wilstone]]
|North     = [[Cheddington]], [[Marsworth]], [[Leighton Buzzard]]
|Northeast = [[Ivinghoe]], [[Edlesborough]]
|West      = [[Aylesbury]], [[Aston Clinton]]
|Centre    = Tring
|East      = [[Tring railway station]], [[Aldbury]]
|Southwest = [[Wendover]], [[Halton, Buckinghamshire|Halton]]
|South     = [[Wigginton, Hertfordshire|Wigginton]], [[Great Missenden]], [[Chesham]]
|Southeast = [[Northchurch]], [[Berkhamsted]]
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