Tring Park

The Tring Park is a large noble estate near Tring in Hertfordshire, England.

History

The early history of the place is not exactly handed, although the estate was in the times of Charles I in the possession of the crown. When Charles II in 1660 during the Stuart restoration to the throne, he transferred the property to his squire Henry Guy. Guy had a new mansion, designed by the architect Christopher Wren build. Shortly after William III. of Orange and his wife Mary II of England in 1688 after the Glorious Revolution, the English throne, Henry Guy was thrown into the Tower of London.

The property changed hands several times until it was leased in the 1830s by Nathan Mayer Rothschild. In May 1872, was purchased with an area of ​​4,000 acres (16 km ²) of Baron Lionel de Rothschild for £ 230,000 and served henceforth as a country residence of the Rothschild family. Rothschild left the mansion significantly larger in order to accommodate his guests there. George Devey is regarded as the architect who changed the Tring Park 1874-1878 and the house of Christopher Wren has transformed into a French Chateau with mansard roof.

1889 Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum was built on the property, where Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild was able to bring his vast collection of stuffed mammals, birds, reptiles and insects preparations. It was available from 1892 to the public and is since 1937 a part of the Natural History Museum.

The bank NM Rothschild & Sons was founded by Nathan Mayer Rothschild in 1939 moved to the beginning of World War II in the mansion. Since 1970, the Arts Educational School Tring owner of the villa.

In 1975, the Tring Bypass A41 (M) was opened, which divided the park into two halves.

Tring Park - Today

Today Tring Park is part of the original estate south of the A41 motorway. It is a publicly accessible place, which is owned by the Dacorum district administration and is managed by the Woodland Trust. Half of the full 300 acres area are hilly pastures. In the south and east of the park are the wooded slopes of the Chiltern Hills, where the old cart paths are still available today. One of them, the King's Ride is the Ridgeway National Trail. In this part of the park are two monuments: an obelisk as Nell Gwynn's monument is locally known, and a summer house.