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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Tring is a small market town and civil parish in the Borough of Dacorum, in Hertfordshire, England. It is situated in a gap passing through the Chiltern Hills, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of London. As a result of the easy gradients in the gap Tring is linked to the capital by many means of transport: the old Roman road of Akeman Street, the modern A41 major road, the Grand Union Canal and the West Coast Main Line to London Euston. As of 2013 Tring had an estimated population of 11,730.
Settlements in Tring date back to prehistoric times and it was mentioned in the Domesday Book. Tring received its market town charter in 1315. Tring is now largely a commuter town within the London commuter belt; residents drive or cycle to the Tring railway station located more than a mile from the centre of the town.
A nineteenth century description
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Tring from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "TRING, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Berkhampstead [registration] district, Herts. The town stands on Icknield-street, 1¾ mile W of the Northwestern railway, and 5 NW of Berkhampstead; was known at Domesday as Treung, and belonged then to R. D'Eu; consists chiefly of two well built streets; carries on canvas-weaving, silk-throwing, silk-weaving, brewing, straw-plaiting, and parchment-making; and has a head post-office, a [railway] station with telegraph, a banking office, a market house, a handsome church, chiefly later English, restored in 1862, five dissenting chapels, a mechanics' institute, national schools, a weekly market on Friday, and fairs on Easter Monday and Old Michaelmas day. Population in 1861: 3,130. Houses: 649.
- "The parish includes several hamlets, and comprises 7,390 acres. Real property: £13,289; of which £156 are in gasworks. Population: 4,841. Houses: 1,010. The manor was given by Stephen to Feversham abbey; went, at the dissolution, to the Norths; passed to the Peckhams, the Guys, the Gores, and others; and belongs now to W. Kay, Esq. T. Park mansion is said, by some, to have been built by the Guys,-by others, to have been built by Charles II. for Nell Gwynne; and is now the residence of the Rev. J. Williams. Roman relics have been found. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Value: £300. Patron: Christchurch, Oxford.
- "The sub-district contains 5 parishes and a part. Acres: 15,109. Population: 7,471. Houses: 1,547."
Until 1894 Tring included the hamlets of Wilstone and Long Marston. In 1894 Wilstone hamlet was joined to the ecclesiastical parish of Long Marston to form the civil parish of Tring Rural, but ecclesiastically Wilstone is still attached to Tring, and is served by a curate in charge. (Source: Victoria County History of Hertfordshire)
Research Tips
- Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
- Hertfordshire Family History Society
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- GENUKI outlines information for genealogists for the county. It is also a doorway to pages covering individual parishes.
- Joiner's Marriage Index is available for Hertfordshire on GENUKI. Individual parishes are covered separately.
- Wikimedia Commons has a variety of maps of Hertfordshire, and parts of Hertfordshire, past and present.
- A Vision of Britain through Time is a website produced by the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. It outlines all parishes as they were in the 19th century.
- The FamilySearch Wiki lists its collections of church records and vital records along with those provided by other organizations, both commercial and voluntary.
- The commercial website FindMyPast also has a collection of wills and newspaper transcriptions, as well as the "1939 Register" (an equivalent to the census gathered at the beginning of World War 2).:*The hundred of Dacorum: Introduction as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 2, pp 141-142
- The parish of Tring with Long Marston ibid, volume 2, pp 281-294
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