Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Redbourn

Redbourn, par. and vil. with ry. sta., Herts, on river Ver, 4½ miles NW. of St Albans by road and 4½ miles NE. of Hemel Hempstead by rail, 4563 ac., pop. 2177; P.O., T.O.; has silk mills; near vil. is Redbourn House, seat; a cell to St Alban's Abbey was founded here in the 12th century.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Redbourn CP/AP       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Redbourn

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