Spa Day at Verulamium Spa from Red Letter Days
Unwind at the luxurious Verulamium Spa in St Albans. Get away from all the stresses and strains of everyday like and enjoy full use of the spa facilities. Leave feeling fully relaxed and revitalised.
Tring Hertfordshire 1
Tring Hertfordshire 1
Sopwell House, Hertfordshire
Located five minutes from St Albans, Sopwell House stands in acres of Hertfordshire countryside and is a sought-after venue for weddings, special events and business meetings. It’s also a superb leisure break destination thanks to its luxurious day spa with pool, sauna, steam room, Jacuzzi and 14 recently refurbished treatment rooms. Find our more here:
Tring virtual walk
Todays virtual walk is in Tring Hertfordshire.
People have lived, farmed and traded in Tring for thousands of years. The Icknield Way, which hugs the Chiltern scarp, is reckoned to be the oldest road in Europe, while the Bulbourne valley provided an obvious route for the Romans heading out west from St Albans. It was almost inevitable that a settlement would grow up here on the well-drained soil, with springs and good sites for wind and water mills.
The Manor of Tring, described in the Domesday survey, was to be the dominant influence on the town for centuries. It was held by the Crown and a succession of religious houses, including the Abbey of Faversham, which secured the all-important market charter in 1315. The manor was granted in 1679 to Henry Guy, Groom to the Bedchamber and Clerk of the Treasury to Charles II. Soon afterwards, Colonel Guy built himself a mansion designed by Sir Christopher Wren. He was also responsible for looking after the King's mistress Nell Gwynne, but it is improbable that she ever lived here.
Tring also has a close connection with George Washington, the first President of the USA. George's great grandfather, John Washington, was born and brought up in Tring. In the late 19th century the Manor became the home of a branch of the Rothschild family whose influence on the town was considerable
Places to see in ( Tring - UK )
Places to see in ( Tring - UK )
Tring is a small market town and civil parish in the Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England. Situated in a gap passing through the Chiltern Hills, classed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , 30 miles (48 km) north-west of London, and linked to London by the old Roman road of Akeman Street, by the modern A41, by the Grand Union Canal and by rail lines to Euston Station.
Settlements in Tring date back to Prehistoric times and it was mentioned in the Domesday Book. Tring received its market town charter in 1315. Tring is now largely a commuter town within the London commuter belt. The name Tring is believed to derive from the Anglo-Saxons Tredunga or Trehangr. Tre', meaning 'tree' and with the suffix 'ing' implying 'a slope where trees grow'.
Tring was the dominant settlement in the area, being the primary settlement in the Hundred of Tring during the Domesday Book. Tring had a very large population and paid a large amount of tax relative to most settlements listed in the Domesday book. The mansion of Tring Park was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and was built in 1682 for the owner Henry Guy, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles II.
Tring is in west Hertfordshire, adjacent to the Buckinghamshire border, at a low point in the Chiltern Hills known as the 'Tring Gap'. This has been used as a crossing point since ancient times, being at the junction of the Icknield Way and under the Romans Akeman Street, the major Roman road linking London to Cirencester. It is transected east and west by the ancient earthwork called Grim's Dyke. It is located at the summit level of the Grand Union Canal and both the canal and railway pass through in deep cuttings. Tring railway cutting is 2.5 mi (4.0 km) long and an average of 39 ft (12 m) deep and is celebrated in a series of coloured lithographs by John Cooke Bourne showing its construction in the 1830s.
Tring railway station is about 2 mi (3 km) from the town and is served by London Midland services from Milton Keynes Central to London Euston, and Southern operates the cross-London service to South Croydon via Clapham Junction. The station is served by slow and semi-fast trains. The station was originally opened in 1837 by the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) under the direction of the railway engineer Robert Stephenson.
The remote location of Tring railway station was due to changes to the route of the railway imposed on Stephenson by local landowners such as Lord Brownlow who wished to protect his Ashridge Estate. Tring railway station was once considered as the terminus of an extension to the Metropolitan Railway (today's London Underground Metropolitan line) from Chesham but this project was not realised. In 1973 the A41 bypass was opened. The route of this new road runs through Tring Park.
Tring Sports Centre is in the grounds of Tring School. Tring is the former home town of Premiership referee and 2003 FA Cup Final referee Graham Barber, now retired in Spain. It is also home to the retired FA and World Cup referee Graham Poll. Tring is home to three football clubs, Tring Athletic, Tring Town and Tring Corinthians, all of which play in the Spartan South Midlands Football League, and to a youth football club, Tring Tornadoes, which field sides for boys and girls up to 16.
( Tring - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Tring . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Tring - UK
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Champneys Spa Day and Treatment at Tring
Champneys spas have been at the forefront of British pampering since 1925, and this is your chance to visit their fabulous, Downton-esque Tring resort. Enjoy a day’s access to the exceptional facilities, a three-course buffet lunch, and your choice of soothing 25-minute treatment.
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Frost, Canal and Beauty Spots of Hertfordshire
ESPA The Grove Hotel Influencers Trip
Visit The Grove Hotel, Hertfordshire and Hitchin Lavender with ESPA and some of our favourite influencers, to celebrate the new Unearth Your Second Nature campaign. #ItsSecondNature
Old Warden Steam Sat 16sep17
After a week of heavy showers, and more today, the ground was so wet that all movement was stopped.
Its hoped that the ground will dry out on the Sunday.
So a few clips of engines running at their pegs today.
Hopefully more activity tomorrow.
My 40th at Sopwell House!
Junior & Joyce Gamache [SIV291]
11/30/12: Ferdinand Gamache AKA as Junior, is a third generation Vermont dairy farmer who has been collecting John Deere memorabilia for the past 20 years. His wife Joyce has a collection of her own, rescuing stray cats and caring for them in the dairy barn alongside the cows. Joyce and Junior recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and Eva visited with them at their farm in St. Albans.
Music: Bert Hirsch, The Little Things in Life
Jet Skiing Experience in Bedfordshire - Red Letter Days
For an exhilarating ride in the water, book a jet skiing experience at purpose-built facilities in Bedfordshire - a fun day out from Red Letter Days.
The Luxuries of Yorkshire Spa Hotels
In the event that you do not exactly fumble about to a workout then you can dependably go and unwind in the spa. The spa is a brilliant place for you to make tracks in an opposite direction from the every day hassles of life or to spoil yourself with a percentage of the awesome spa medications that are presently on offer.
Dairy Farmer: Brian Champney, Holland, Vermont
Brian Champney is a dairy farmer in Holland, Vermont who sees renewable energy as vital to economically sustainable farms.
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To be a dairy farmer it takes dedication,
I think that's the biggest you know
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you've gotta, you gotta be dedicated,
especially in today's age.
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I think it's
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important, for you know, almost any farmer.
Today you need to diversify, we're
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getting paid almost the same as we were
thirty years ago.
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Wind turbines, even as a little kid I was
always interested I just I like them.
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They're mechanical, I'm a mechanical kind
of guy, I look at that wind turbine as
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another piece of equipment to help make
the farm more viable
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The power that this turbine will generate, it's gonna take
roughly two acres.
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To do a solar project
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to generate that much power it takes a hundred and ten acres and we
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can't afford to lose, you know we can't
afford to lose 110 acres and I'm just a
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firm believer in that you try to
leave the place a little bit better
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then you found it and I think renewable
energies does that
Crowne Plaza Marlow
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Bedfordshire - Henlow Bridge Lakes