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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.
Flint House. 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 ]
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 ]
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]
The Natural History Museum at Tring was once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild, and is located on the grounds of the former Rothschild family home of Tring Park. The building was constructed in 1889 to house his collection of mounted specimens and first opened to the public in 1892.
By the 15th century, Pendley was a small town. In 1440 the county sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire Sir Robert Whittingham (or Whytingham) and his wife Agnes received a grant of free warren from King Henry VI at Pendley manor; Sir Robert enclosed 200 acres and tore down the buildings on the land, returning the estate to pasture. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Licking County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.