What is Tring like?

Tring is a small market town at the north-western edge of Hertfordshire, in a gap in the Chiltern hills, with the Grand Union Canal and the railway passing more than a mile to the east and the town itself gathered around a High Street of Georgian and Victorian buildings. The Rothschild family owned Tring Park from the 1870s, and much of the town's late Victorian character comes from that period: estate cottages, the natural history museum that Walter Rothschild founded, and public buildings. Behind the High Street are Victorian terraces on Akeman Street and the roads around the church, and beyond them the twentieth-century estates that doubled the town's size, mostly semis and terraces of the 1950s to the 1980s to the north and east, with later closes still being added. Tring comes under Dacorum Borough Council.

What is awkward about the High Street and the old centre?

The High Street is the old through road and it is narrow where it passes the church and the older shops. Flats above shops are reached by stairs from the street or from a yard behind, and some of the older houses on Akeman Street and Frogmore Street open directly on to the pavement with no room for a lorry to stop without blocking the road. The centre is a conservation area and a good many buildings are listed, which does not stop you moving but does mean low lintels, old staircases and doors that a modern sofa will not pass. Dacorum handles any bay suspension, and on a narrow street the firm may prefer a smaller vehicle that can stop briefly and shuttle to a lorry parked elsewhere.

What about the estates?

The post-war estates are far easier for a lorry to reach, with roads built for cars, drives and, in the earlier parts, garages in blocks. The difficulties are the usual ones of houses from those decades: integral garages that became rooms, extensions that moved the kitchen, loft conversions, and conservatories at the back that are the only way to the garden. A terrace with no side access means garden furniture, pots and the contents of the shed go through the house, so mention it.

Does HP23 reach into the villages?

Yes. HP23 covers Tring station, a hamlet on its own at the end of Station Road, and the villages and hamlets around the town: Aldbury under the Ashridge woods, Wigginton on the hill to the south, Long Marston, Wilstone and Marsworth out towards the reservoirs; Marsworth is across the county line in Buckinghamshire. These are cottages, farmhouses, converted barns and some larger houses on lanes that a lorry can use with care and tracks that it sometimes cannot. A converted barn may have a huge living space with one normal-sized door, and a cottage may have a stair so steep that a double mattress has to go out of a window. Say which village and describe the lane and the gate.

Is a move from Tring a long-distance job?

Tring sits on the county's edge, so many moves cross into Buckinghamshire, to Aylesbury, Wendover or the villages, or go north into Bedfordshire. A local firm will think nothing of the distance, but the parking council and the access at the far end will be different and need their own checks. If the move is the other way, down the A41 to Hemel Hempstead or Watford, say which part, because the far end's layout matters as much as Tring's.

What about the canal and the reservoirs?

The canal climbs to its summit near Tring and the reservoirs that feed it lie to the north of the town. The hamlets along the canal, including Tring station itself and Bulbourne, have cottages and converted buildings reached by narrow roads over the cutting and the bridges, with little room to turn a lorry. If your home is one of these, say how close a vehicle can get and whether there is somewhere to stop without blocking the lane.

What should a Tring enquiry include?

whether you are in the old centre, on an estate, at the station or in a village
the age of the building and anything low, narrow or steep in it
where a lorry can stop, and whether the road is wide enough for one
loft, garage, garden and outbuildings
your HP23 postcode and the date you are aiming for

With your consent, one local removals firm that takes work in HP23 receives the enquiry, if one does. The firm, not this site, will say whether they can do it.

Who you will hear from

We pass your enquiry to one local removals firm, if one covers your postcode. It is never sent to a list of companies. If nobody covers your postcode, we will tell you and will not pass your details on.