Meaning: slope with trees .

Tring is set in the Chiltern Hills, near Hastoe Hill (709 ft). There is a church with a 1707 monument to Sir William Gore. The Zoo Museum is linked to the British Museum and has an interesting collection. Parts of Tring Park are now ascribed to Wren, including the school. The Grand Union Canal rises to one of its summit levels here, through 65 locks between here and Brentford on the outskirts of London. Champneys, a well known nature cure centre founded in 1925 lies 3 miles south-east. Tring reservoirs lie to the north and form a nature reserve .

The Zoo museum includes Darwin’s specimens from Galapagos.

There was a straw plaiting industry. The Rothchild museum contains an extensive natural history collection. There may have been a Romano-British village on the site of the present town  .