It is situated in a gap passing through the Chiltern Hills, classed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 30 miles (50 km) from Central London.

Settlements in Tring date back to prehistoric times and it was mentioned in the Domesday Book; the town received its market charter in 1315.

[3] The name Tring is believed to derive from the Old English Tredunga or Trehangr, 'Tre' meaning 'tree' and the suffix 'ing' implying 'a slope where trees grow'.

[4] There is evidence of prehistoric settlement with Iron Age barrows and defensive embankments adjacent to The Ridgeway, and also later Saxon burials.

[7] Landholdings included the manor of Treunga,[8] assigned to Count Eustace II of Boulogne by William the Conqueror.

This charter gave Faversham Abbey the right to hold weekly markets on Tuesdays, and a ten-day fair starting on 29 June, the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.

The landowner Sir Robert Whittingham received a grant of free warren from King Henry VI.

[9] Tring Park Mansion was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and was built in 1682 for the owner Henry Guy, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles II.

[11] The town's prosperity was greatly improved at the start of the 19th century by the construction nearby of the Grand Junction Canal, and soon afterwards in 1835 the London and Birmingham Railway.

Industries which benefited included flour milling, brewing, silk weaving, lace-making and straw plaiting.

A local landowner, Joseph Grout Williams, commissioned a new manor house to be built in Jacobean Revival style, and this building still stands today on Station Road.

The business was subsequently run by the next generation of the family, Frederick and George, and was also known locally as Tring Old Bank.

The old livestock market office is now the home of the Tring Local History Museum, which opened in September 2010.

[23] Tring Urban District Council held its first meeting on 3 January 1895 at the Vestry Hall in Church Yard.

[24] Tring Urban District Council continued to meet at the Vestry Hall until 1910, and had an office on Western Road.

[33] Tring is in west Hertfordshire, adjacent to the Buckinghamshire border, at a low point in the Chiltern Hills known as the 'Tring Gap'.

Tring railway cutting is 2.5 mi (4.0 km) long and an average of 39 ft (12 m) deep and is celebrated in a series of coloured lithographs by John Cooke Bourne showing its construction in the 1830s.

[34] The four Tring Reservoirs – Wilstone, Tringford, Startops End and Marsworth – were built to supply water for the canal.

In those days, Mead lived on-site, in a house next to the yard, and owned half the area taken by the mill of today.

In the days of the Tring windmill, only two men operated the system, milling ten stone per hour.

Pendley Manor, a hotel, conference and arts centre, is situated about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the town, near the railway station.

[43] Tring railway station is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the town and lies on the West Coast Main Line.

[46] An extension of the Metropolitan Railway was once considered from Chesham, making Tring station the terminus, with connections to the main line companies serving the north; this project was not realised.

Key direct destinations include Aylesbury, Dunstable, Hemel Hempstead, Luton and Watford.