Tring is positioned at a low point in the Chiltern hills range, which has been utilised by communications links since ancient times as a point of easy crossing. It is located at the summit level and there has been extensive excavation of cuttings for both the canal and railway as they pass the vicinity. The four Tring reservoirs:- Wilstone, Tringford, Startops End, and Marsworth were built to supply water for the canal. They have been a national nature reserve since 1955, and a Site of Special Scientific Interest since 1987. Tring railway cutting is 2.5 miles in length and an average of 40 feet deep and is celebrated in an 1839 coloured lithograph by John Cooke Bourne in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Important features in Tring include the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul and the mansion of Tring Park built by Sir Christopher Wren and radically altered by Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild (ennobled as Baron Rothschild of Tring) as his country residence, and now a college of performing arts.

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.

Nearby is the Ashridge Estate, part of the National Trust.

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