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The Church Square at Tring was Yarn Bombed on the 29th June, 2015, as part of the Tring 700 celebrations. About 130 people were involved in the preparations including the following organisations:

All Stitched Up - St Bartholomew's School, Wigginton
Bishop Wood School
Crafty & Wine!
Daisyknots
Hessian & Indigo at The Lady Shed
High Street Baptist Church
Home Start
New Mill Baptist Church
St Joseph's Care Home
St Peter & St Pauls Tring Team Parish
Stitch & Bitch Group
Tring School
Tring Together
The Women's Institute
Yarn Bomb Tring Facebook Group

For many more pictures of the Yarn Bombing in progress see "Recording Tring" Link

In addition there was some more yarn bombing in the Church Square and the adjacent churchyard for the annual Victorian Evening in November.

Tring officially became a town on 13th July 1315 with the granting of a charter by King Edward II.
The following year a ten day feast was held to celebrate the town's new status - this commenced on 29th June 1316.
By a conflation of these dates, the 700th anniversary of the charter was celebrated a fortnight earlier than it really should have been, on 29th June 2015.
Various events took place in and around the town and the church bells were rung for several hours. There was a service in the church and a beer tent and barbecue in the church grounds. The local knitters "yarn bombed" Church Square as can be seen from several of the photos.

The Church Square was the site of the old market house Link but that was demolished in 1900 to make and open space in front of the church. It was used for the open air market until the 1970s and then became an untidy car park, but towards the end of the century it was given a complete face lift, with a reproduction Victorian post box and a decent bus shelter. In 2015 the Market returned to where it should always have been - in the centre of the town.
The Town War Memorial SP9211 : Tring War Memorial is at the back of the Square, on the edge of the Churchyard