Hertfordshire Genealogy: Places: Miswell Lane, Tring

TRING
A Walk through Tring in Early Picture Postcards
mainly by local photographers

Miswell Lane, Tring
S. G. Payne & Sons, Aylesbury
Posted 1905 to a Mr Gurney, East View, Miswell Lane.

Looking up the hill, with Longfield Road going off to the left in the distance. The hedge on the right is where the council houses were erected in the early 1900s.

Miswell Lane, Tring
F. Jacklin & Son, Western Road, Tring
before 1918
published in The RA Series

Looking down the hill after the council houses have been built. The road to the right is Beaconsfield Road. The diagonal path crossing the road from the right is an old footpath from Drayton Beauchamps to Tring town centre.

The Windmill, Tring
C. A. Howlett

Goldfield Windmill, or Grover's Mill is on the ridge at the top of Miswell Lane. It is reported as having lost it sails in 1903,

See also picture in Tring: A Pictorial History

Turn right into Icknield Way and east continue to
New Mill

If, instead of turning right, you continue straight ahead down a farm lane you reach Miswell Farm - Miswell being mentioned in the Domesday Book.