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Redbourn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. It is located 3 miles (4.8 km) from Harpenden, 4 miles (6.4 km) from St Albans and 5 miles (8.0 km) from Hemel Hempstead. The civil parish had a population of 6,913 according to the 2011 Census.
To the south-west of the village, just beyond the motorway, is the site of an Iron Age hill fort called the Aubreys. Nearby is Aubrey Park, which dates back to the 13th century. To the north of the village is the site of a complex of Roman temples.
The village has been continuously settled in since Saxon times at least and is recorded in the Domesday Book. Its parish church, St Mary's, was built in the early 12th century. Some fifty years later, a small priory was founded half a mile away on Redbourn Common, after the abbot of St Albans Abbey decided to consecrate the ground. Some bones had been found on the spot, reputed to be of St Amphibalus, the priest who had converted St Alban to Christianity.
In the 16th century, the manor of Redbourn belonged to the Reade family. Sir Richard Reade, formerly Lord Chancellor of Ireland, bought the manor when he came back to England from Ireland; he died in 1575 and was buried at the parish church. Reade left legacies to Winchester College and for the upkeep of the parish of Redbourn. The manor of Redbourn itself was inherited by his eldest son, Innocent, who also inherited the older family estate at Nether Wallop.
In 2010, Redbourn's St Mary's Church celebrated its 900th anniversary.
The three tiers of local government are Redbourn Parish Council, St Albans City & District Council and Hertfordshire County Council.
For a long time, Redbourn was the centre of a farming community; it had a successful watercress business on the water meadows of the River Ver. Just south of the village, flour was ground at Redbournbury Mill, a recently restored watermill.[citation needed]
Silk throwing was carried out at the steam-driven Woollam's Mill, near Redbourn Common. The mill was taken over by John Mangrove & Son, but closed in 1938. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Brooke Bond took over the silk mill as a food factory. Whilst it was still open, a young man in the village fell into a vat of jam and died. After a successful lobbying campaign by schoolchildren in 2003, a memorial bench was unveiled to Sticky Joe, as he had come to be known. After the closure of the factory in 1996, the old silk mill manager's house, the grade II-listed Silk Mill House was given to Redbourn Parish Council; it became the Redbourn Village Museum, opening in May 2000. The former silk mill site is now a housing estate.[citation needed]
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Redbourn
Redbourn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. It is located 3 miles (4.8 km) from Harpenden, 4 miles (6.4 km) from St Albans and 5 miles (8.0 km) from Hemel Hempstead. The civil parish had a population of 6,913 according to the 2011 Census.
To the south-west of the village, just beyond the motorway, is the site of an Iron Age hill fort called the Aubreys. Nearby is Aubrey Park, which dates back to the 13th century. To the north of the village is the site of a complex of Roman temples.
The village has been continuously settled in since Saxon times at least and is recorded in the Domesday Book. Its parish church, St Mary's, was built in the early 12th century. Some fifty years later, a small priory was founded half a mile away on Redbourn Common, after the abbot of St Albans Abbey decided to consecrate the ground. Some bones had been found on the spot, reputed to be of St Amphibalus, the priest who had converted St Alban to Christianity.
In the 16th century, the manor of Redbourn belonged to the Reade family. Sir Richard Reade, formerly Lord Chancellor of Ireland, bought the manor when he came back to England from Ireland; he died in 1575 and was buried at the parish church. Reade left legacies to Winchester College and for the upkeep of the parish of Redbourn. The manor of Redbourn itself was inherited by his eldest son, Innocent, who also inherited the older family estate at Nether Wallop.
In 2010, Redbourn's St Mary's Church celebrated its 900th anniversary.
The three tiers of local government are Redbourn Parish Council, St Albans City & District Council and Hertfordshire County Council.
For a long time, Redbourn was the centre of a farming community; it had a successful watercress business on the water meadows of the River Ver. Just south of the village, flour was ground at Redbournbury Mill, a recently restored watermill.[citation needed]
Silk throwing was carried out at the steam-driven Woollam's Mill, near Redbourn Common. The mill was taken over by John Mangrove & Son, but closed in 1938. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Brooke Bond took over the silk mill as a food factory. Whilst it was still open, a young man in the village fell into a vat of jam and died. After a successful lobbying campaign by schoolchildren in 2003, a memorial bench was unveiled to Sticky Joe, as he had come to be known. After the closure of the factory in 1996, the old silk mill manager's house, the grade II-listed Silk Mill House was given to Redbourn Parish Council; it became the Redbourn Village Museum, opening in May 2000. The former silk mill site is now a housing estate.[citation needed]
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