Rushden, Hertfordshire

Human settlement in England

Rushden

District

North Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Region

East

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51°58′03″N 0°06′19″W / 51.9676°N 0.10527°W / 51.9676; -0.10527

Rushden is a small village and civil parish which forms part of the grouped parish council of Rushden and Wallington in the North Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. Rushden is located just off the A507 between Baldock and Buntingford.

Notable residents

Sir Thomas Stanley (1625 in Cumberlow – 1678) an English author and translator.^[2]
Percy Portsmouth, (1874–1953) sculptor, retired to "Youngloves" in Rushden.

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
^ Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Stanley, Thomas" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). pp. 781–782.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rushden.

Rushden Community Website

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Civil parishes in Hertfordshire

Dacorum (partly parished)

East Hertfordshire (wholly parished)

Hertsmere (partly parished)

North Hertfordshire (partly parished)

St Albans (partly parished)

Three Rivers (partly parished)

Welwyn Hatfield (partly parished)

Wholly unparished boroughs

See also

List of places in Hertfordshire

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