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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
TRING, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Berkhampstead 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 r. 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. Pop. 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. Pop., 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 p. curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £300.* Patron, Christchurch, Oxford.—The sub-district contains 5 parishes and a part. Acres, 15,109. Pop., 7,471. Houses, 1,547.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Tring CP/AP Tring Urban CP Tring SubD Berkhampstead RegD/PLU Hertfordshire AncC |
| Place names: | TREUNG | TRING |
| Place: | Tring |
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