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Mary Cross Close, TRING, HP23 6QL

A private road on the edge of Wigginton.

A meadow full of buttercups and clover with may blossom still showing in the hedgerow.

At 216 metres above sea level, but with fine views to the north only, this trig pillar is on the Ridgeway walk. Langton Wood is at the end of the field.

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).

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.

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.

The Ridgeway by the Trig Point at Wigginton

This photo shows the flush bracket benchmark on the triangulation pillar east of Fox Road near Wigginton. It has the letters OS (Ordnance Survey), BM (Bench mark) and its number S4458.

This concrete pillar is located on The Ridgeway trail east of Fox Road, the postcode being HP23 6EE. Its height above sea level is 710 feet (216 metres). From this point, views can be obtained looking northeast towards the Ashridge Estate and Dunstable Downs. Its benchmark is on the right side of the pillar, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6576084 refers.

This trig pillar is situated immediately adjacent to the Ridgeway path as it crosses between Fox Road and The Twist near to Langton Wood north of the village of Wigginton. For some strange reason this trig pillar with the flush bracket code of S4458 is referred to on the web as "Dunsley Farm" - which it is nowhere near ! (Dunsley Farm is on the outskirts of Tring nearly a kilometre away and 70m lower in altitude). The pillar marks a height of 216m (708')