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Osborne Way, TRING, HP23 6EN

Looking across a field with plenty of wild flowers past the tops of a few houses on Osborne Way. In the distance the white tower than can just be seen is the top of Image] about 3½ miles (5½km) away.

Footpath off The Ridgeway on the edge of Wigginton.

Tring Park originally formed part of the estate of the banker Lionel de Rothschild and of his son Nathaniel (1st Baron Rothschild of Tring), who made sweeping changes to the mansion, to the estate farms and its other buildings, and who opened the Tring Zoological Museum as a gift to his son Walter - the Museum now forms part of 'The Natural History Museum' (and is well worth a visit). Walter Rothschild was responsible for introducing numerous exotic animals - including wallabies, cassowaries, quaggas and rheas - into the Park's extensive grassland. Today the Park, which is managed by the Woodland Trust, is home to much less exotic sheep and cattle. This view is towards Pitstone Hill (skyline, right of centre).

This house bordering Tring Park at the end of dead-end drive in Wigginton is called Highfield Lodge. They had a garden open day, when these photos were taken. The house also offers Bed & Breakfast on Booking.com On the large scale OS maps it is named as Ranger's Cottage. I would say that it dates from the last decades of the C19th.

An Arts and Crafts style house on the edge of Wigginton.

These poplar trees on rising ground by the side of a private road can be seen from a considerable way away.

This little structure is in woodland adjoining and belonging to Image] It looks like an old ruined chapel, but is I'm sure, a folly. Whether it is contemporaneous with the house (late C19th) or was one of various follies in Tring Park, which would make it older, I don't know.

A private road on the edge of Wigginton.

Tring Park originally formed part of the estate of the banker Lionel de Rothschild and his son Nathaniel (1st Baron Rothschild of Tring) who made sweeping changes to the mansion, to the estate farms and its other buildings, and who opened the Tring Zoological Museum as a gift to his son Walter - the Museum now forms part of 'The Natural History Museum' (and is well worth a visit). Walter Rothschild was responsible for introducing numerous exotic animals - including wallabies, cassowaries, quaggas and rheas - into the Park's extensive grassland. Today the Park, which is managed by the Woodland Trust, is home to much less exotic sheep and cattle. This view is towards is towards Pitstone Hill (skyline, centre).

This was one of the public houses built by John Brown, of Tring Brewery, in the mid 19th century.