Tring Hertfordshire Family History Guide
Tring is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Hertfordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Betlow, Wilstone, and Long Marston.
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Parish registers begin:
Tring
- Parish registers: 1566
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Long Marston
- Parish registers: 1820
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1609
Nonconformists include: Baptist, General Baptist New Connexion, Particular Baptist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Hulcott, Buckinghamshire
- Aldbury
- Bierton with Broughton, Buckinghamshire
- Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire
- Puttenham
- Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
- Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire
- Wigginton
- Drayton Beauchamp, Buckinghamshire
- Pitstone, Buckinghamshire
- Wing, Buckinghamshire
- Marsworth
- Wingrave, Buckinghamshire
- Hawridge, Buckinghamshire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
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.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Hertfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Berkhampstead
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon (Hitchin Division)
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Rochester, Pre-1845 – Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Berkhampstead
- Poor Law Union: Berkhampstead
- Hundred: Dacorum
- Province: Canterbury