Editing Tring (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Tring looking North.jpg|thumb|View over Tring, looking north]]
Tring is in west Hertfordshire, adjacent to the [[Buckinghamshire]] border, at a low point in the Chiltern Hills known as the 'Tring Gap'. This has been used as a crossing point since ancient times, being at the junction of the [[Icknield Way]] and under the Romans [[Akeman Street]], the major [[Roman road]] linking London to [[Cirencester]]. It is transected east and west by the ancient earthwork called [[Grim's Ditch|Grim's Dyke]].<ref name="british-history.ac.uk">{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43280&strquery=Tring |chapter=Parishes: Tring with Long Marston |editor-first=William |editor-last=Page |date=1908 |title=A History of the County of Hertford (Volume II) |location=London, UK |publisher=Victoria County History |pages=281–294 |access-date=11 March 2010}}</ref> It is located at the summit level of the [[Grand Union Canal]] and both the canal and railway pass through in deep cuttings. [[Tring railway cutting]] is {{convert|2.5|mi|km|abbr=on}} long and an average of {{convert|39|ft|m|abbr=on}} deep and is celebrated in a series of coloured lithographs by [[John Cooke Bourne]] showing its construction in the 1830s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=842 |title=Tring Cutting |website=Engineering-timelines.com |access-date=2013-10-18}}</ref>

The four [[Tring Reservoirs]] – Wilstone, Tringford, Startops End and Marsworth – were built to supply water for the canal. These have been a national nature reserve since 1955, and identified as a [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]] since 1987.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tringreservoirs.com/about/ |title=All about Tring Reservoirs |date=2007 |website=British Waterways |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312005459/http://www.tringreservoirs.com/about/ |archive-date=12 March 2009}}</ref> Nearby, within the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chilternsaonb.org |title=Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |website=ChilternsANOB.org |access-date=2013-10-18}}</ref> that almost surrounds the town, is the [[Ashridge Estate]], part of the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] and home to [[Ashridge Business School]].

The civil parish includes the hamlets of Little Tring, New Mill and Bulbourne to the north of Tring and [[Hastoe]] to the south.

===Climate===
{{Weather box
|location = Tring
|metric first = Yes
|single line = Yes
|Jan high C = 6
|Feb high C = 7
|Mar high C = 10
|Apr high C = 12
|May high C = 16
|Jun high C = 19
|Jul high C = 21
|Aug high C = 22
|Sep high C = 18
|Oct high C = 14
|Nov high C = 9
|Dec high C = 6
|year high C = 13
|Jan low C = 3
|Feb low C = 3
|Mar low C = 4
|Apr low C = 5
|May low C = 8
|Jun low C = 10
|Jul low C = 12
|Aug low C = 13
|Sep low C = 11
|Oct low C = 8
|Nov low C = 5
|Dec low C = 3
|year low C = 7
|Jan precipitation mm = 69.3
|Feb precipitation mm = 59.4
|Mar precipitation mm = 46.5
|Apr precipitation mm = 70.1
|May precipitation mm = 58.1
|Jun precipitation mm = 58.9
|Jul precipitation mm = 46.0
|Aug precipitation mm = 68.9
|Sep precipitation mm = 51.7
|Oct precipitation mm = 84.3
|Nov precipitation mm = 93.9
|Dec precipitation mm = 80.9
|year precipitation mm = 788.0
|source 1 =<ref>{{cite web |url=http://weather.msn.com/monthly_averages.aspx?wealocations=wc:33907&q=Tring%2c+GBR+forecast:averagesm  |title=Averages for Tring |website=MSN Weather |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129150343/http://weather.msn.com/monthly_averages.aspx?wealocations=wc:33907&q=Tring,+GBR+forecast:averagesm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-29}}</ref>
|date=August 2010
}}