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Tring, this small, attractive town is located in the far west of Hertfordshire, midway between Hemel Hempstead and Aylsbury (in Buckinghamshire).
Set amid the wooded Chiltern Hills on the Ridgeway, Tring has been an important market town since the 17th century but is now mainly residential.
To the north of the town runs the Grand Union Canal. This 200 year old waterway formed the major part of a direct canal link from London to Birmingham which helped transform Britain during the Industrial Revolution. A number of the canal walks in Hertfordshire pass through the town.
The wealthy Rothschild family had an important influence on the town. Their mansion in 300 acre Tring Park is now a private school.
The Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, a department of the Natural History Museum since 1937, stands in Akeman Street, just off the High Street.
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Aldbury, just outside Tring near the Buckinghamshire border, has a perfect village green right down to its stocks. The village also has attractive houses and pubs. There are also several good walks nearby, including Aldbury Common and Ivinghoe Beacon Ivinghoe Beacon, set on a spur of the Chilterns at the end of the long-distance Ridgeway Path, looks out over 8 counties.
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