Tring : non-conformists, dissenters, puritans : see `Box Lane Chapel`

Tring : non-conformists, dissenters, puritans : see `Box Lane Chapel`


`The Lost Madonna` : Registration Number / Date: TXu000754417 / 1996-08-08

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tring

Tring is a small market town in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England. Situated 30 miles (50km) north-west of London and linked to London by the old Roman road of Akeman Street, by the modern A41, by the Grand Union Canal and by rail lines to Euston Station, Tring is now largely a commuter town in the London commuter belt.
[] History
The Manor of Tring is described in the Domesday survey of 1086. In 1682 the Mansion designed by Christopher Wren was built for the owner Colonel Guy. A later tenant was Lawrence Washington, great-grandfather of George Washington, first President of the USA. In the late 19th century the estate became the home of the Rothschild family, whose influence on the town was considerable.

Nathan Mayer, Rothschild's son Lionel Walter Rothschild (2nd Lord Rothschild) built a private zoological museum in Tring which, as The Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, has been part of the Natural History Museum since 1937. In April 2007 the museum changed it's name to the Natural History Museum at Tring in order to make people more aware of the museum's link to London's Natural History Museum.

The 2nd Lord Rothschild also released the edible dormouse (Glis glis) into Tring Park. He is remembered for riding around the town in a zebra-drawn carriage, and the town's symbol has been the head of a zebra ever since.