20 Facts About Tring

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 London Euston.

Tring is largely a commuter town within the London commuter belt.

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'.

Tring was the dominant settlement in the area, being the primary settlement in the Hundred of Tring at the time of the Domesday Book .

Tring had a large population and paid a large amount of tax relative to most settlements listed in that survey.

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Tring enclosed 200 acres and tore down the buildings on the land, returning the estate to pasture, and built a manor house, Pendley Manor.

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.

Tring used to ride around the town in a carriage drawn by zebras.

Tring is a part of the UK Parliament constituency of South West Hertfordshire.

Tring has three tiers of local government at parish, district, and county level: Tring Town Council, Dacorum Borough Council, and Hertfordshire County Council.

Parish of Tring formerly included a large rural area as well as the town itself, including Long Marston and Wilstone.

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.

Tring is in west Hertfordshire, adjacent to the Buckinghamshire border, at a low point in the Chiltern Hills known as the 'Tring Gap'.

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.

Tring did object to a much later plan to build a steam tramway between Tring Station and Aylesbury.

Tring Park School for the Performing Arts is an independent specialist performing arts and academic school.

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 has a theatre youth group, Court Youth Theatre, which is connected to the Court Theatre, Pendley Manor.

Tring is the former home town of Premiership referee and 2003 FA Cup Final referee Graham Barber, now retired in Spain.