Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for REDBOURN

REDBOURN, a village and a parish in St. Albans district, Herts. The village stands on the river Ver, 2¼ miles S W by W of Harpenden r. station, and 4½ N N W of St. Albans; is an ancient place; carries on straw-plaiting; and has a post-office under St. Albans, and fairs on the Wednesday after 1 Jan. and Easter Wednesday. The parish comprises 4, 515 acres. Real property, £10, 255. Pop., 2,043. Houses, 441. The property is divided among a few. The manor was given, by Egelwine the Saxon, to the monks of St. Albans; passed to the Row-lats; and belongs now to the Earl of Verulam. R. House is a chief residence. A cell to St. Albans abbey was founded here in the 12th century. A large ancient campis at Aubrey. Silk-mills are on the river Ver, and areworked by steam. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £302.* Patron, the Earl of Verulam. The church is ancient; was recently restored; and contains tablets to the Baskerfields and the Ecclestons. There are a mixed national school, and charities £30.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Redbourn CP/AP       St Albans RegD/PLU       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Redbourn

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