Places to explore near Tring StationTring

Hertfordshire's grand circuit from the Royce Stone at Royston — chalk streams, commons and country houses for nearly 200 miles.

0 km N · Hertfordshire

London to Birmingham by water — the trunk route of the canal age, with arms reaching Leicester, Aylesbury, Northampton and Paddington.

0.2 km SW · spans 9 counties

Chiltern-edge village with a duck pond, old stocks and whipping post on the green, timbered cottages climbing towards Ashridge woods.

1.5 km E · Hertfordshire

Granite column of 1832 rising above the Ashridge beeches near Aldbury, climbable in summer for a thirty-mile view across the Chilterns.

2.1 km NE

Beech woods and chalk downs on the Chilterns edge.

2.6 km E

Walter Rothschild's own zoological museum in Tring, its Victorian galleries crammed with mounted animals from around the world.

2.9 km W

Nature reserve in a former chalk quarry near Pitstone, with wetland birds, chalk flowers and a lakeside visitor centre.

2.9 km NW

Four Victorian reservoirs built to feed the Grand Union Canal on the Chiltern edge near Tring, now a noted birdwatching reserve.

3.4 km NW

Bare chalk hilltop at the north-east end of the Ridgeway, an Iron Age hillfort with sweeping views over three counties.

4.7 km N

A vast recumbent lion cut into Dunstable Downs in the early 1930s to mark the zoo below — big enough to see from the air.

7.1 km NE

A ten-acre garden planted between the wars in the outline of a cathedral, with grass avenues for nave and transepts and 'walls' of trees, a memorial to the fallen.

8.2 km NE

Chalk escarpment with gliders and sweeping views.

9.2 km NE

High Chilterns village round a broad green with a cricket pitch and old church, often called one of England's most perfect villages.

9.4 km SW · Buckinghamshire

Britain's oldest road — a prehistoric chalk track past Avebury, hillforts and white horses.

0.1 km W · spans 5 counties

The Chiltern Society's grand loop through four counties of beechwood and chalk, grown from a Millennium project into 177 miles.

1.4 km SE · spans 5 counties

Independent brewery and shop in a Chiltern market town, brewing cask and craft ales in Tring.

2.2 km W

A National Trust place in Buckinghamshire.

3.5 km N

The missing middle of the 'oldest road in Britain', linking the Ridgeway at Ivinghoe Beacon to the Peddars Way at Knettishall Heath.

3.8 km NE · spans 7 counties

Canalside village by the Tring reservoirs on the Grand Union, a birdwatching spot where flights of locks climb the Chilterns.

3.9 km NW · Buckinghamshire

Village at the foot of Ivinghoe Beacon where the Chilterns meet the vale, with a big cruciform church, old brewery buildings and Pitstone Mill nearby.

4.6 km N · Buckinghamshire