Redbourn
Adjacent Parishes: Flamstead, Harpenden, Hemel Hempstead, Market Street (= Markyate), St Michaels (St Albans), Wheathampstead
The Parish was part of the St Albans Union.
Redbourn, an ancient town on the River Ver, in St Albans Union and Liberty, and on Watling Street, 24 miles form London, 4 miles north-east of Hemel Hempstead station, 4½ miles north-west of St Albans. Previous to railway being opened upwards of 80 coaches passed through, and now there is not a single conveyance. In 1831 the population was 2,024, and the number of acres is 4,260, assessed to the Property Tax, in 1815, at £6,499, and, in 1842, at £9,577. On the river are mills, and there are fairs on the first Wednesday after Jan. 1st, on Easter Wednesday, and on Whit Wednesday. The church, ½ mile south west, is ancient, but recently restored, and the living is a vicarage, valued R. R. 1834 at £302 per annum, in the gift and impropriation of the Earl of Verulam. The vicar is the Rev. William S. Wade. Aubury, close to Foster's Farm, is an ancient camp of large size, ¾ mile south-west. Dean end, Revel end, Hammond's end, Beeson's end, and Rothampstead are places in the neighbourhood.
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Redbourn Church, Redbourn Kelly's 1908: Daniel Barton Skillman, athletic depot, stationery, & Post Office, High Street, Harpenden Another copy of this card, posted July 1914, carried the message: The country here is delightful. Saw a field full of wheat and poppies such a sight. |
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| Church End, Redbourn Postcard showing the view from the Church Tower, with The Avenue in the distance. Posted 1904
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Redbourn Common lies to the west of the High Street, and is over half a mile long ... The Common is the home of the Cricket Club, the oldest known team in the country, dating from 1666. Matches are played here every week-end during the season with a cricket week in August and the occasional celebrity match. Some of the many lively organisations in the village arrange fetes on the common during the summer, a fair visits twice a year, the village bonfire and fireworks evening is becoming an established event, followed a few days later by the Remembrance Day Service at the War Memorial ,,,
The Hertfordshire Village Book
See review of Redbourn for information on The Cricketers Inn.
Book: Redbourn's History
Book: The Story of Redbourn
Book: Redbourn by May Walker
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High Street, Redbourn
Bedford Series # 28 |
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"Cyclist's Rest"
sign
The Saracen's Head |
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| High Street, Redbourn Early divided back, posted 1904, no publisher information "That is our house where the cross is." Posted by Maggie to her mother, Mrs Mackenzie, 36 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh, Scotland |
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The Ford Harpenden Lane |
The Kennels of the South Hertfordshire Beagles were at
Beaumont Hall, Redbourn.
The history of this pack is given in a history of
Hunting in Hertfordshire,
published in parts in the
Hertfordshire
Countryside in the 1940s.
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The Redbourn Methodist Church - opened 1876
For an account of Methodism in Redbourn in the early 19th century see Methodism in the city of the Proto-Martyr and the St Albans Circuit |
Book: Reconstruction and Measurement of Landscape Change - Detailed study of the parishes around St Albans
Occupations: Coaches and Inns, Redbourn, 1830's (Includes information on the Black Horse and White Horse Inns.)
Web Site: The Redbourn site at http://www.redbourn.org.uk/ contains significant historical information.
See also Vital Records
Page updated December 2009
