42-705: Baron Rothschild , of Tring in the County of Hertfordshire , is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . It was created in 1885 for Sir Nathan Rothschild, 2nd Baronet , a member of the Rothschild banking family . He was the first Jewish member of the House of Lords not to have previously converted to Christianity. The current holder of the title is Nathaniel Rothschild, 5th Baron Rothschild , who inherited
84-577: A wholesale seed and 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
126-569: A branch of the National Westminster Bank , the last to be represented in the town. 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 . His son, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild , built a private zoological museum in Tring. This housed perhaps
168-473: A community based radio station that broadcast from the town. The town is served by the local newspaper, Hemel Hempstead Gazette & Express . Tring railway station is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the town and lies on the West Coast Main Line . It is served by London Northwestern services from Milton Keynes Central to London Euston ; in addition, Southern operates
210-556: 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 . Tring Urban District Council held its first meeting on 3 January 1895 at
252-558: A ring; He gazed at the moon, Every evening in June, That ecstatic Old Person of Tring. The 1980 television series, Shillingbury Tales was filmed in the village. 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
294-452: A seat in the House of Lords. Rothschild was thus the first practicing Jew to sit in the House of Lords. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Walter , the second Baron. He was a banker and politician but is best remembered for his interest in zoology . He died without male issue and his brother had predeceased him, so upon his death, the titles passed to his nephew Victor , the third Baron. He
336-607: 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. The tower of the Church of St Peter and St Paul was built between 1360 and 1400. 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 King Henry VI . He enclosed 200 acres (about 80 hectares) and tore down
378-493: 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 Chiltern Hills Too Many Requests If you report this error to
420-433: Is his son, born in 2022. There are no other living male-line descendants of the first Baron. If the line of the first Baron fails, the barony will become extinct, but the baronetcy will fall to a descendant of the first Baron's younger brother, Leopold de Rothschild (1845–1917). That descendant is currently his great-grandson Nicholas David Rothschild (born 1951). Those in positions (3) to (8) below are in remainder to
462-888: Is in Tring. Tring is home to the Tring Book Festival; a ten-day festival held in November. Tring is part of the Dacorum Local Food Initiative. 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. 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,
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#1732772304688504-745: Is now the home of the Tring Local History Museum, which opened in September 2010. Tring is a part of the UK Parliament constituency of Harpenden and Berkhamsted . Victoria Collins has been the Member of Parliament (MP) since the July 2024 election . 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
546-422: 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 . An extension of
588-474: Is transected east and west by the ancient earthwork called Grim's Dyke . 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 2.5 mi (4.0 km) long and an average of 39 ft (12 m) deep and is celebrated in a series of coloured lithographs by John Cooke Bourne showing its construction in
630-558: 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 Grove Road Primary School . Tring has a youth club – The Tring Youth Project – for those between 11 and 18 at
672-588: The English branch of the Rothschild family. The first Baronet was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew, the aforementioned second Baronet, who was created Baron Rothschild in 1885. Although other ethnic Jews such as Sampson Eardley and Benjamin Disraeli had already received peerages, both were brought up as Christians from childhood, and Eardley's Irish peerage did not entitle him to
714-642: The Grand Union Canal and by the West Coast Main Line to London Euston . Settlements in Tring date back to prehistoric times and it was mentioned in the Domesday Book ; the town received its market charter in 1315. Tring is now largely a commuter town within the London commuter belt . As of 2021, Tring had a population of 12,427. The name Tring is believed to derive from the Old English Tredunga or Trehangr , 'Tre' meaning 'tree' and
756-537: 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. 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 . In 1973, the A41 Tring bypass
798-561: The barony in February 2024. The Rothschild baronetcy , of Grosvenor Place , was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1847 for Anthony de Rothschild , a banker and politician, with remainder to the male issue of his elder brother, Lionel de Rothschild , the first ever practicing Jewish Member of Parliament . Both Anthony and Lionel were sons of the influential financier Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), founder of
840-671: The 1830s. 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. Nearby, within the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty that almost surrounds the town, is the Ashridge Estate , part of the National Trust and home to Ashridge Business School . The civil parish includes
882-514: The M25. 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
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#1732772304688924-673: 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 . The town's prosperity was greatly improved at
966-633: 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. Edward Lear makes reference to Tring in A Book of Nonsense : There was an Old Person of Tring, Who embellished his nose with
1008-609: The Vestry Hall in Church Yard. The first chairman was Frederick Butcher, who had been the last chairman of the old local board. Tring Urban District Council continued to meet at the Vestry Hall until 1910, and had an office on Western Road. It then moved its meeting place to the Market House at 61 High Street, which had been built between 1898 and 1900. The council remained at Market House until 1952, when it moved to
1050-585: The baronetcy only. Tring Tring / t r ɪ ŋ / is a market town and 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 , 30 miles (50 km) from Central London . Tring is linked to London by the Roman road of Akeman Street , by the modern A41 road , by
1092-839: The building being renamed the Counting House. Tring Town Council is based at the Market House at 61 High Street. 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
1134-522: 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 , Anderson and Harcourt families until the mid-19th century. 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 . John Washington , the son of
1176-491: The cross-London service to East Croydon via Clapham Junction . The station is served by slow and semi-fast trains. The station was originally opened in 1837 by the London & Birmingham Railway , under the direction of the railway engineer Robert Stephenson . 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. The location
1218-497: 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 . 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.
1260-527: The former Tring Park estate office at 9 High Street, remaining there until the council's abolition. 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. The former urban district council's offices at 9 High Street became private offices, with
1302-418: The hamlets of Little Tring, New Mill and Bulbourne to the north of Tring and Hastoe to the south. 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
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1344-546: The largest collection of stuffed animals worldwide. 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
1386-504: The local elections on 2 May 2019, Tring Town Council comprises 11 Liberal Democrats and 1 Conservative . The parish of Tring formerly included a large rural area as well as the town itself, including 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. The "Upper Hamlet" of
1428-468: The parish of Tring, covering the town, was made a local government district with effect from 2 February 1859, governed by a local board . Following the Public Health Act 1872 , such local government districts were also called urban sanitary districts . Under the Local Government Act 1894 , urban sanitary districts became urban districts on 31 December 1894. The 1894 Act also stipulated that
1470-662: 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 . 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. In 1836 Thomas Butcher,
1512-579: The suffix 'ing' implying 'a slope where trees grow'. There is evidence of prehistoric settlement with Iron Age barrows and defensive embankments adjacent to The Ridgeway , and also later Saxon burials. 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
1554-478: The time of the Domesday Book (1086). Tring had a large population and paid a large amount of tax relative to most settlements listed in that survey. Landholdings included the manor of Treunga, assigned to Count Eustace II of Boulogne by William the Conqueror . In 1315 the town was granted a market charter by Edward II . This charter gave Faversham Abbey the right to hold weekly markets on Tuesdays, and
1596-407: The town in a carriage drawn by zebras . 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
1638-405: The use of this Austrian baronial title in the United Kingdom by Lionel de Rothschild and certain other members of the Rothschild family. However, the use of such foreign titles in the United Kingdom was subsequently limited by a warrant of 27 April 1932. The heir presumptive is the present holder's first cousin, James Amschel Victor Rothschild (born 1985). The heir presumptive's heir apparent
1680-410: Was occupied by boat-builders, Bushell Brothers, who built narrowboats 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 kg bags from the pre-packed flour plant. In
1722-518: Was opened. 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 12 miles (19 km) of grade-separated dual carriageway that links the Tring bypass to
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1764-573: Was the only son of the Hon. Charles Rothschild . As of 2024, the titles are held by the fourth Baron's son, Nathaniel , the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2024. In 1822, the hereditary title of Freiherr ( baron ) of the Austrian Empire was granted in the Austrian nobility by Emperor Francis I of Austria to the five sons of Mayer Amschel Rothschild . In 1838, Queen Victoria authorized
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