Rushden

Other current and historical names

Risendene

Parish/Community: Rushden
District/Borough: North Hertfordshire
County: Hertfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°58'0"N 0°6'7"W
Eastings/Northings: 530483, 231516
OS Grid: TL304315
Mapcode Local: GBR K8K.R0D
Mapcode Global: VHGNP.5TWM

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Rushden within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Rushden in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Rushden.-- par. and vil., Herts, 4 miles NW. of Buntingford, 1509 ac., pop. 270; near vil. is Rushden Park, seat.

Rushden in the Domesday Book

A village in Odsey hundred, in the county of Cambridgeshire.

- Overlord in 1066: Archbishop Stigand
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Freemen, two
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Sigar of Chocques
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Sigar of Chocques
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1066; £5 10/- in 1070; £5 10/- in 1086
- Households: 8 villagers; 3 smallholders; 3 cottagers; 1 freeman; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 5 men's ploughs (8 plough lands)
- Meadow: ¹⁄₂ plough
- Woodland: 50 pigs

British Place Names

Rushden, Hertfordshire

Rushden is a village in Hertfordshire

Rushden in historic gazetteers

Rushden in the Domesday Book