Tring and Berkhamsted

Two small towns located in the county of Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Tring and Berkhamsted have populations of 11,000 and 16,000 respectively. Both have long and interesting histories and both were mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1089. Berkhamsted in fact was the site of Edgar Aetheling’s surrender to William of Normandy (who thus became William the Conqueror), Berkhamsted’s stone castle was built on the site of a former wooden Saxon fortification in the 1080’s until finally abandoned in the late fifteenth century, in the 14th century Edward the Black Prince spent his honeymoon there. Tring Manor was once owned by the great grandfather of George Washington (U.S president), and later by the Rothschild family who founded the well known Natural History Museum in the town. The four Tring reservoirs were built to supply water to the Grand Union canal, which runs north of the town. Tring Map.