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London Road, TRING, HP23 6FD

These were planted some years ago and are now well-established. See also Image The road coming straight towards you is an old Roman Road which originally continued in a straight line but many years ago was rerouted to run through what is now Tring town centre. The roundabout provides access to the bypass (A41).

A close up of the flower head of a Pink Horse Chestnut (Aesculus x. carnea) (see Image])

This wood carvings were on a temporary stall Image on the grass verge of London Road, Tring, on the May Bank Holiday Monday. See also Image

This display of woodcarvings - of real and imaginary animals, and abstract shapes, appeared on the wide grass verge for the May Bank Holiday. Other Pictures Image Image

This is a view along London Road in Tring. The tree in the foreground is an Acer, i.e. a member of the Maple family. There are many Acers in Britain, by far the most common and noticeable is the Sycamore. This Acer has leaves as large as a sycamore's, but they are not as rough and as can be seen have a pinkish hue. It may well be an ornamental hybrid, probably with the Norway Maple. The white flowers beneath are Cow Parsley.

Photograph taken on London Road, Tring where there are a variety of different trees along the roadside. The Pink Horse Chestnut is a hybrid of the standard Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) and the Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia) {a native of S.E. USA} - the resultant tree (A. x carnea) does not have the grandeur of the original Horse Chestnut, but does have pretty pink flowers. (See Image])

Over the May Bank Holiday weekend a stall selling wood carvings Image appeared on the grass verge of London Road. While there was not activity at the time, the red-roofed stall was where the carving process was demonstrated. See also Image

This is one of the charming lodges to the former Rothschild residence of the Mansion House in Tring. It guarded the Image Known as London Lodge it now stands off its own little lay-by formed when Oddy Hill (Image]) was closed to traffic.

From a glance at the map (most clearly seen on the 1:50000) it is obvious that the old main road through Tring used to go directly across the grounds of what is now the Mansion House - and is home to a private school. This track into the Mansion's estate follows that original Roman road, Akeman Street. (Confusingly there is a street in Tring called Akeman Street which actually runs perpendicular to the true Akeman Street !) This house (see Image] & Image]) was one of several in the area which was owned by the Rothschild banking family. The Mansion House predates the Rothschilds' ownership however as it was originally designed by Sir Christopher Wren, though his original building is entirely obscured by a Georgian façade.