Discover 6 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Tring (United Kingdom). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Natural History Museum at Tring, Church of St Peter and St Paul, and Pitstone Windmill. Also, be sure to include Tring Park in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Tring (England).
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Natural History Museum at Tring
Victorian collection of stuffed animals. The Natural History Museum at Tring was the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild; today it is under the control of the Natural History Museum, London. It houses one of the finest collections of stuffed mammals, birds, reptiles and insects in the United Kingdom. It was known as the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum until April 2007. The museum is located on Akeman Street, in Tring, Hertfordshire.[1]
Address: Akeman St, HP23 6AP Tring
Church of St Peter and St Paul
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is an Anglican church in Tring, Hertfordshire, England, and in the Diocese of St Albans. The building is Grade I listed. Although extensively restored in the late 19th century, it is largely a 15th-century building.[2]
Pitstone Windmill
Tourist attraction in Pitstone, England. Pitstone Windmill is a Grade II* listed windmill in England which is thought to date from the early 17th century. It stands in the north-east corner of a large field near the parish boundary of Ivinghoe and Pitstone in Buckinghamshire, and belongs today to the National Trust.[3]
Address: Ivinghoe, Leighton Buzzard LU7 9ER, Tring
Tring Park
Park in England. Tring Park is a public open space in Tring, owned by Dacorum Borough Council and managed by the Woodland Trust. It is part of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Half of the 264 acres is undulating grassland, grazed by cattle. Part of the park, together with the nearby Oddy Hill, is the 35.6 hectare biological "Oddy Hill and Tring Park" Site of Special Scientific Interest.
The park formerly belonged to Tring Park Mansion, built in 1682 by Christopher Wren and altered externally in the nineteenth century. In the early eighteenth century Charles Bridgeman was employed to lay out the grounds, with a summerhouse and other buildings designed by James Gibbs. The park is Grade II listed by English Heritage in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.
The two areas of the SSSI are grassland on chalk scarp which have a diverse flora including rare species. Much of the parkland is managed by grazing, but ungrazed scrub on sloping areas provides habitat for invertebrates and breeding birds.
In the wooded Chiltern escarpment are former carriage rides. One of these, King Charles Ride or the King's Ride, forms part of the Ridgeway National Trail. In 2013 work started to restore King Charles Ride by replanting a circle of lime trees at the 'rond point' and improving the vista over the park and town. In the northeast corner are two Grade II listed monuments: an obelisk known locally as Nell Gwynne's monument, and the summerhouse with a grand four-column temple-style portico.[4]
Address: Park Road, Tring
Goldfield Mill
Goldfield Mill or Grover's Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill at Tring, Hertfordshire, England which has been converted to residential accommodation.[5]
Tring Park Mansion
Tring Park Mansion or Mansion House, Tring Park, is a large country house in Tring, Hertfordshire. The house, as "Tring Park", was used, and from 1872 owned, by members of the Rothschild family from 1838 to 1945.
The mansion and its immediate grounds are now home to the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Tring Park now usually refers to that part of the original estate south of the A41. It is public open space, owned by Dacorum Borough Council and managed by the Woodland Trust.
Originally designed by Sir Christopher Wren in the 1680s, the house was considerably expanded in the 1780s and again in the 1880s.[6]