Tring

51.796111111111 - 0.65916666666667Koordinaten: 51 ° 48 ' N, 0 ° 40 ' W

Tring is a small market town in the Chiltern Hills in the district Dacorum the county of Hertfordshire, England. 50 km north-west of London and ( an old Roman road ), the A41 motorway, the Grand Union Canal and the railway line connected to London by the Akeman Street to Euston Station, Tring is now part largely to the commuter belt within the metropolitan area of ​​London. Tring has 13,000 inhabitants.

Geography

Tring is in a low point of the Chiltern Hills and is located at the summit level of the Grand Union Canal. Both for the channel and for the train between London Euston - Watford - Bletchley - Northampton, there has been extensive excavation sections. The railway section at Tring is four kilometers long and has an average depth of twelve meters.

The construction work was immortalized on lithographs by the artist John Cooke Bourne during the 1830s. The four Tring reservoirs - Wilstone, Tringford, Startops End and Marsworth were built for the water supply of the channel.

1955, the region was declared a national nature reserve and since 1987 it is one of the places of considerable scientific interest ( Site of Special Scientific Interest ).

Near the Chiltern Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is the Ashridge Park, which is managed by the organization The National Trust. Here is the Ashridge Business School. The Tring railway station is about three kilometers from the site. The ring roads from 1973 to 1987, the motorway A41 (M).

History

The seat of power of Tring is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. 1682 Christopher Wren designed the mansion, which was built for the first owner Colonel Guy. A later tenant was Lawrence Washington, the great-grandfather of George Washington, the first President of the United States. In the late 19th century the estate office of the Rothschild family, who exercised a considerable influence on the community Tring was.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild's son Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild built a private museum in Tring Park, which is when Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum since 1937 part of the Natural History Museum. In April 2007, the name of the museum in the Natural History Museum at Tring was changed to show visitors the connection with the London Museum of Natural History conscious. The bird collection of the museum is one of the largest bird collections in the world ( 1,150,000 museum pieces which 300,000 bellows, 2000 dermoplastics and 200,000 eggs to skeletons, nests and preparations in liquid) and also has because of the numerous type specimens a great scientific importance.

On the initiative of the Rothschilds dormouse ( Glis glis ) in Tring Park and the Chiltern Hills in 1902 exposed. Rothschild was known that he with an open carriage through Tring, which was pulled by a team of zebra drove. Since then, a zebra head is the symbol of the city.

Sports

The Tring Sports Centre is located on the estate of Tring School. The two football clubs Tring Athletic and Tring Corinthians, both play in the Spartan South Midlands Football League. The Tring Rugby Union Football Club plays in the second London Rugby League.

Local business

At retail companies, the retail chains Tesco, The Co -operative Group and Marks & Spencer are represented on the site. Since 1992, produces the Tring Brewery Ale. Heygates Mill, originally a windmill is a grain mill. The first mill owner was William Mead. 1910, the windmill was demolished to make room for a silo. William Mead lived in a stately home in the vicinity of the mill. He owned half of the territory that is now occupied by the mill. The other half was owned by the boat builder Bushell Brothers, who built narrowboats there. 1945 took over the Heygate family William Mead's company. Today in the mill annually 100,000 tons of grain are milled with a yield of 76,000 tons of flour. As in the past few days of Tring windmill, only two men are needed to operate the mill system. Formerly still half a ton of flour per hour produced, the current output is more than twelve tons per hour, being fully automated.

Heygates Mill has 80 employees. Sixteen trucks supplying companies and private customers throughout southern England.

Education

The Tring School ( for 11 to 18 year olds) is at Mortimer Hill. The Arts Education School is an independent school in Tring Park.

Personalities

Sons and daughters

• James Edgar Dandy (1903-1976), English botanist
• Gerald Massey (1828-1907), British poet, Egyptologist and literary critic
• Graham Poll ( born 1963 ), former British FIFA referee