Tring West & Long Marston

The Tring West & Long Marston area, as defined for Buckinghamshire local government, covers a stretch of villages and farmland on the county’s western edge beside the Chiltern Hills. Narrow lanes and a network of public footpaths run between arable fields, small copses and hedgerows, linking clusters of houses to a village hall, a primary school and a handful of local businesses. Long Marston sits as a linear settlement set along its principal road, with small greens and ponds that sit close to farmsteads and grazing land.

Much of the area opens onto the chalk scarp of the Chilterns, with beech woodland and stretches of grassland rising toward the ridge; from higher lanes there are views that include Ivinghoe Beacon on the skyline. Rights of way and bridleways are used for walking and riding, and seasonal farming patterns — harvest machinery, hedgerow work and lambing in spring — mark the year. Local community events and village noticeboards tie the dispersed settlements together.