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Rushden

Rushden is a town in . It forms a single urban area with the neighbouring town of Higham Ferrers. Neighbouring villages include Irchester, Wymington, Podington and Stanwick.
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  • Type: Town with 28,400 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England
  • Also known as: “Rushden, Northamptonshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rushden Transport Museum and Higham Ferrers Pits.

Museum
The Rushden, Higham and Wellingborough Railway is a branch line heritage railway operated by the Rushden Historical Transport Society in the town of Rushden in the county of , England.

Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a 10 hectare nature reserve . It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

Ruins
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is a former medieval chantry college situated in , in , England. Chantry colleges were founded primarily in the 14th and 15th centuries in England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Higham Ferrers and Irchester.

Town
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is a market town and civil parish in the Nene Valley in , , close to the and borders.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in , two miles south-east of and two miles south-west of Rushden. The population of the village at the 2011 Census was 5,706 and estimated in 2019 at 5,767. is situated 2 miles west of Rushden.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in the borough of Bedford in northwestern , . It is located about 1.7 miles south of Rushden, in the neighbouring county of , and about 10 miles north-northwest of .

Rushden

Latitude
52.2912° or 52° 17′ 28″ north
Longitude
-0.5988° or 0° 35′ 56″ west
Population
28,400
Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB RUS
Open location code
9C4X7CR2+FF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26984902
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2638946
Wiki­data ID
Q1987237
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Rushden” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Rushden”
  • Basque: “Rushden”
  • Bengali: “রাসডেন”
  • Bulgarian: “Ръшдън”
  • Catalan: “Rushden”
  • Cebuano: “Rushden”
  • Chinese: “魯斯登”
  • Chinese: “魯斯頓”
  • Chinese: “鲁斯登”
  • Dutch: “Rushden”
  • French: “Rushden”
  • German: “Rushden”
  • Gujarati: “રશડેન”
  • Irish: “Rushden”
  • Italian: “Rushden”
  • Japanese: “ラッシュデン”
  • Kannada: “ರಶ್ಡನ್”
  • Korean: “러시덴”
  • Ladin: “Rushden”
  • Lithuanian: “Rašdenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Rušdenas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rushden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rushden”
  • Persian: “راشدن”
  • Polish: “Rushden”
  • Portuguese: “Rushden”
  • Romanian: “Rushden”
  • Russian: “Рашден”
  • Spanish: “Rushden”
  • Swedish: “Rushden”
  • Tamil: “ருஷிடேன்”
  • Telugu: “రుష్డెన్”
  • Turkish: “Rushden”
  • Urdu: “روشدین”
  • Volapük: “Rushden”
  • Welsh: “Rushden”
  • Yue Chinese: “魯斯頓”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Rushden”. Photo: Forester2009, CC BY-SA 3.0.