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Tring Reservoirs
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Tring reservoirs

Activities:
Bird Watching
Cycling / Mountain biking
Fishing
Walking

Attractions:
Family Attractions

Area Guides: Chilterns
Location: Tring
County:
Hertfordshire

Website: http://www.waterscape.com/Tring_Reservoirs


Full Description: The Reservoirs were built in the early 19th Century to feed arms of the Grand Union Canal. They are now designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest on account of their wealth of wildlife.

Tring Reservoirs provide excellent fishing and are well stocked with tench, bream, carp, roach, perch and pike. Fishing is available by day and season tickets for all the reservoirs excluding Tringford which is a private trout fishery. For further information contact water bailiff Bernard Double on 01442 822379.

The waters are extremely clear and rich in minerals attracting an abundance of water plants, insects and fish. This plentiful supply together with the open water, reed beds and surrounding woodlands in turn attracts a large population of breeding, wintering and migrating birds.

Tring Reservoirs were made ornithologically famous by the first nesting in this country of Black-necked Grebes in 1918 and by the first British breeding of Little Ringed Plover twenty years later. The wide variety of wintering and breeding wetland birds continues to delight visitors who are invited to make use of the bird hides.

Walks at Tring Reservoirs offer a choice of colour waymarked routes designed to guide you around this special area and increase enjoyment of your visit. The routes vary in length from a short stroll lasting about an hour to a half day ramble including the Wendover and Aylesbury arms of the Grand Union Canal, Wilstone Reservoir and the surrounding countryside.

You may start wherever you wish. The routes are waymarked with distinctive colour symbols. The yellow route is waymarked in both directions whilst the green and red routes are waymarked in one direction only.

Remember, the reservoirs are famous for their birds so don't forget your binoculars!


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