A01=Barry Woodhouse
akeman street
Author_Barry Woodhouse
Category=NHD
Category=WQH
christopher wren
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george washington
henry guy
Hertfordshire
icknield way
local history
Phillimore
pillow-lace
rothschilds
silk mill
Tring
tring park
Product details
- ISBN 9781860770173
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 185 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1996
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Tring grew up where the Roman Akeman Street crossed the ancient Icknield Way. A sizeable village by the time of Domesday Book, it had become a bustling market town by 1315. Apart from a large silk mill, it had developed industries, like pillow-lace, whereby it was spared the Victorian improvements that demolished the older fabric of other towns. Fortunately this included Tring Park which was bought by the Rothschilds in 1872, and which Christopher Wren designed for Henry Guy. Tring was also the home of George Washington’s ancestors.
