SP9211 : The Old Grave Yard at Tring
taken 16 years ago, near to Tring, Hertfordshire, England

When the old churchyard got full in Victorian times a new plot was opened in 1853 next to what was then the Rectory Garden. This rapidly filled with burials and when I arrived in Tring in the mid 1960s this was a solid sea of gravestones. Shortly afterwards the area was developed and the graveyard was opened up as an open space in 1973 - and only a few of the gravestones were retained.
The Tring & District Local History Society produced a booklet in about 2005 listing the surviving graves, and (surnames only) the graves removed in 1973.
Dolphin Square is at the centre of a small commercial development in the centre of Tring, adjoining the parish church, and with an archway connection to the High Street.
There are a small number of shops onto the square, plus a few in the adjoining Frogmore Street. Immediately behind the square is one of the town centre car parks.
There are often things going on in the square.
