Redbourn Hertfordshire Family History Guide
Redbourn is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hertfordshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1617
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1560
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
REDBOURN, a village and a parish in St. Albans district, Herts. The village stands on the river Ver, 2¼ miles SW by W of Harpenden r. station, and 4½ NNW 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 Rowlats; 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 camp is at Aubrey. Silk-mills are on the river Ver, and are worked 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.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
REDBOURN (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of St. Alban’s, hundred of Cashio, or liberty of St. Alban’s, county of Hertford, 4 miles (N. W.) from St. Alban’s; containing 2024 inhabitants. It comprises by measurement 4500 acres, of which about two-thirds are arable, and one-third pasture. Fairs are held on the Wednesday after New Year’s day, the Wednesday in Easter-week, and Wednesday at Whitsuntide. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £16. 5.; net income, £296; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Verulam. The church stands about a mile west from the village, and is approached by a fine avenue of elms. The Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyans have places of worship. Here was a cell of Benedictine monks from St. Alban’s, dedicated to St. Amphibalus the Martyr and his companions.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Hertfordshire
- Civil Registration District: St Albans
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of St Albans
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Rochester, Pre-1845 – London
- Rural Deanery: St Albans
- Poor Law Union: St Albans
- Hundred: Cashio
- Province: Canterbury