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Tring Park Mansion (southern facade) Tring Park Mansion or Mansion House, Tring Park, is a large country house in Tring, Hertfordshire. The house, as "Tring Park", was used, and from 1872 owned, by members of the Rothschild family from 1838 to 1945. The mansion and its immediate grounds are now home to the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.
Nathan Mayer Rothschild had rented Tring Park in Tring, Hertfordshire in the 1830s. It was purchased with 4,000 acres (16 km 2) by Lionel Rothschild in May 1872 as his principal country residence. [16]
In 1900, Champneys was sold to Lady Rothschild; [3] [4] the family had owned nearby Tring Park Mansion since 1872. [5] In 1925 Stanley Lief (1890–1962), a pioneer in the field of naturopathy, bought Champneys, converting it into a Nature Cure resort which he ran from the 1930s for about 20 years. [6]
The Champneys (also recorded as Champneys and Forsters) estate was originally a separate manor associated with Tring and was recorded in the Court Rolls of 1514. It was owned by successive landowning families in the Wigginton and surrounding area between the 14th and 19th centuries, although for a short period around 1535 it is recorded as ...
Coat of arms granted to Rothschild in 1822 by Emperor Francis I of Austria. The Rothschild family originated from Frankfurt.The family rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who established his banking business in the 1760s. [1]
Part of the park, together with the nearby Oddy Hill, is the 35.6-hectare (88-acre) biological "Oddy Hill and Tring Park" Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). [3] [4] The park formerly belonged to Tring Park Mansion, built in 1682 by Christopher Wren and altered externally in the nineteenth century. [5]
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