Aldbury is a picturesque village 3 miles from the market town of Tring and is a good place to explore the surrounding countryside. The village is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at the foot of a Chiltern ridge bordering the National Trust’s Ashridge estate with its wide variety of woodland walks. The village green has a pond, a set of stocks and a whipping post and the nearby Stocks House was previously home to Mrs Humphry Ward, the novelist who is buried in the local churchyard; Saint John the Baptist’s church is of Early English style and is noted for the Verney Chapel. Stocks was also the British headquarters of the Playboy Club in the 1970s where Victor Lownes ran his gambling and entertainment business - village nightlife then was often far from quiet! Now Stocks is a smart hotel, golf and country club and village life is more tranquil.