RUSHDEN, a parish in the hundred of ODSEY, county of HERTFORD, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from Buntingford, containing 333 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains the handsome monument of Sir Adolphtts Meetkerke, which was removed hither, in 1754, from the church of St. Botolph, Aldersgate; there is alao a memorial to William Love, late a servant in the Meetkerke family, who in 1819 left £233. 6. 8. three per cents, towards the support of a Sunday school. The late Rev. James Ford, vicar of the parish, bequeathed £ 300 three per cents, for the benefit of future incumbents.