Rickmansworth, a town of Hertfordshire, at the confluence of the Colne, Gade, and Chess, 4 miles W. by S. of Watford. It has a church (rebuilt in 1890) with interesting monuments; and near it is Moor Park, the seat of the ill-fated Duke of Monmouth. Pop. of parish (1881) 6211; (1891) 7672. See R. Bayne's Historical Sketch (1870).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 713
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