12 Facts About Rickmansworth

Rickmansworth is a town in southwest Hertfordshire, England, about 17 miles northwest of central London and inside the perimeter of the M25 motorway.

Rickmansworth is the administrative seat of the Three Rivers District Council.

Name Rickmansworth comes from the Saxon name Ryckmer, the local landowner, and worth meaning a farm or stockade.

Rickmansworth was one of five manors with which the great Abbey of St Albans had been endowed when founded in 793 by King Offa.

Rickmansworth attempted to remedy its financial problems by opening several freight branches, the most notable being to the Croxley printers and to the Grand Union Canal at Croxley Green.

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Rickmansworth was absorbed by the burgeoning LNWR whose station it shared at Watford Junction in 1881.

Rickmansworth grew dramatically during the Victorian era and in the 1920s and 1930s as part of Metro-land, due to the extension of Metropolitan Railway, and became a commuter town.

Junctions 17 and 18 of the M25 motorway are within Rickmansworth's boundaries, giving access to Heathrow Airport and the national motorway network.

Rickmansworth is a part of the UK Parliament constituency of South West Hertfordshire.

When sanitary districts were created in 1872, the parish of Rickmansworth therefore became part of the Watford Rural Sanitary District, which in turn became Watford Rural District in December 1894.

An inquiry was held in February 1896 at the Town Hall in Rickmansworth, considering whether to turn the parish into urban district.

The Rickmansworth Players is a well-established amateur dramatics society that performs musicals and plays on a regular basis.