By 1900 it had branches in Aylesbury, Chesham and Berkhamsted. The business was subsequently run by the next generation of the family, Frederick and George, and was also known locally as Tring Old Bank. In 1836 Thomas Butcher, a wholesale seed and corn merchant, and his son also called Thomas, established a private bank, Thomas Butcher & Son in Tring High Street. A local landowner, Joseph Grout Williams, commissioned a new manor house to be built in Jacobean Revival style, and this building still stands today on Station Road. In 1835, the medieval Pendley Manor was destroyed by fire. Industries which benefited included flour milling, brewing, silk weaving, lace-making and straw plaiting. The town's prosperity was greatly improved at the start of the 19th century by the construction nearby of the Grand Junction Canal, and soon afterwards in 1835 the London and Birmingham Railway. In 1656 he left Tring to go on a trading voyage to Virginia, but after a shipwreck on the Potomac River he remained in Virginia, married and started a family which eventually included his great-grandson, George Washington, the first President of the United States. John Washington, the son of the Reverend Lawrence Washington and Amphyllis Twigden, was born and brought up in Tring. Tring Park Mansion was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and was built in 1682 for the owner Henry Guy, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles II. This house was variously inhabited by the Verney, Anderson and Harcourt families until the mid-19th century. He enclosed 200 acres (about 80 hectares) and tore down the buildings on the land, returning the estate to pasture, and built a manor house, Pendley Manor. The landowner Sir Robert Whittingham received a grant of free warren from King Henry VI. Until 1440, there was a small village east of Tring called Pendley (or Penley, Pendele, or Pentlai). The tower of the Church of St Peter and St Paul was built between 13. It also prevented the creation of any rival markets within a day's travel of the town. This charter gave Faversham Abbey the right to hold weekly markets on Tuesdays, and a ten-day fair starting on 29 June, the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. In 1315 the town was granted a market charter by Edward II. Landholdings included the manor of Treunga, assigned to Count Eustace II of Boulogne by William the Conqueror. Tring had a large population and paid a large amount of tax relative to most settlements listed in that survey. Tring was the dominant settlement in the area, being the primary settlement in the Hundred of Tring at the time of the Domesday Book (1086). The town straddles the Roman road called Akeman Street, running through as the High Street. There is evidence of prehistoric settlement with Iron Age barrows and defensive embankments adjacent to The Ridgeway, and also later Saxon burials.
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