LNWR Cottages at Tring Station, Aldbury
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LNWR Cottages at Tring Station, Aldbury
Image: © Chris Reynolds Taken: 23 May 2009
Tring Station was opened in 1837 and as it was in a rural situation cottages were built for railway employees. This picture show the east end of a terrace of Webb standard designed cottages. The front of the former Royal Hotel can be seen in the distance. The cottages are clearly shown in the 1877 Ordnance Survey www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/links/tring-station-1877.htm . And on the opposite side of the road there were 11 allotment-type plots in 1877. These have now been developed to form the Clarke's Spring estate. The www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/links/tring-station-1877.htm also provides information on the railway employees in 1851 and 1881. The cottages contained staff which might reasonably be expected to be able to read and write – and few of these were local. However many railway labourers lived in Aldbury and had been born in or near the village.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.800213
Longitude
-0.624297