Towns & Villages in Herts

Rushden

Adjacent Parishes:  Clothall, Cottered, Sandon, Wallington

It was in Odsey Hundred and the Buntingford Union

Rushden Church - see Packets of Postcards

Rushden, formerly Risendene and Risden (5 miles S.E. from Baldock), has a stuccoed brick church, Dec. and Perp., Chauncy saw in it "no inscription, Monument, or other Remark," but in 1754 the monument of Sir Adolphus Meetkerke, Kt., was brought here from St. Botolph's, Aldergate. Meerkerke was Ambassador from Flanders to the Court of Wueen Elizabeth, and the author of several volumes. Note the canopy in the nave, thought to have covered a statue of the Virgin. In the reign of Henry II the patronage of the church was given by William Basset, Sheriff of Leicestershire, to the Canons and Church of St Peter's, Dunstable.

Hertfordshire - The Little Guide, 1903

Census: There is a list of surnames from the 1841-1901 censuses on the HCM web site.

See also Vital Records

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Page updated August 2006