Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Tring. You may be able to find further references to Tring in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Tring	market town and parish	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Tring.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Long Marston	village	Bartholomew
Marston, Long	village	Bartholomew
Wilstone	hamlet	Bartholomew
WILSTONE	a hamlet	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Tring within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	1
Thomas Pennant	August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Wigginton	1	2
Buckland	0	2
Aldbury	0	2
Drayton Beauchamp	1	2
Cholesbury	0	3
St Leonards	0	2
Aston Clinton	0	2
Marsworth	0	3
Hawridge	0	2
Halton	0	2
Long Marston	0	3
Puttenham	0	2
Ivinghoe	0	2
The Lee	0	3
Northchurch	0	2
Berkhamsted	3	3
Wendover	0	2
Cheddington	0	3
Marston Gate	0	2
Chartridge	0	2