History
A village has been settled at least since Saxon times and these are recorded in the Domesday Book. In fifty years fallowing its Norman Church was built, a little Priory was founded half the mile away in Redbourn Common, after a archimandrite of St Albans Abbey decided to hallow the ground. Occasionally bones got been obtained on the spot, reputed to become of St. Amphibalus, the priest who converted St. Alban to Christianity.

Local enterprise
Redbourn was, for an extended instance, the centre of the agricultural community & for the period got a successful cresson business. Silk throwing was carried out at Woolhams Mill touching Redbourn Most common. A mill was taken across by John Mangrove & Son and closed in 1938. At a irruption of the World War II, Brooke-Bond took over a silk mill. When closing their mill within 1996 a old Silk manager’s home wwhen donated as a village museum. the previous silk mill places is okay, a housing estate. Local grocer Russell Harborough install the jam making factory, which inside 1956 was bought by Thomas Mercer Ltd, marine chronometer maunfacturer. A places, upright off a High Street, is at present an industrial estate.

Old industries in the village involved making straw plait & hat making—Redbourn Village Hall was once the straw hat manufactory.

Coaching and other transport
When you took a coaching job era, Rebourn was referred to as the Street ofLodge, boasting at least Xxv pubs and inns at its peak, but inside 1838 the opening of the railway from London to Birmingham, sounded the demise knell of stage-coaching.

The branch railway line - known as a Nicky Line - from Hemel Hempstead to Harpenden, passed through Redbourn. A line opened in 16 July 1877 and closed in 1979. the route is okay, a public pathway. A 1st bus company through the village began around 1908 though buses took a few years to get constituted.

Miscellany
In 1903 Mr Boucher, a local dentist, owned the foremost personal car in the village, (a Half a dozen HP Gladiator). Many drive rallies were centred in Redbourn in the 1900s using The Bull Saloon. A threesome garages, Walkers & Hardings in the High Street, Bylands on Dunstable Road and Stathams at Church End have all closed leaving only a filling station next to The Chequers Pub on the St Albans Road. A 1st calamitous drive accident witharound Redbourn was touching The Chequers in 1908. Alas accidents on the St Albans road however occur & come as well okay, the regular occurrence on the nearby M1. the number 1 mention of the Redbourn by-pass was around 1935 & a single was built inside 1984, the High Street was closed for a day of celebrations. Redbourn was Hertfordshire Village Of The Month, 2002 (Overall & Western Area Winner), and a section winner in 2003. Around 2002 Redbourn was as well an Eastern & Home Counties Section Winner. 2004 saw Redbourn once again winning Hertfordshire Village of the Month, American Locality. Redbourn Care Class action, the local charity, was a 2003 Queen's Golden Jubilee Award Winner. a Chequers saloon, the better known local hostelery, was good damaged by fire within December 2004.

Reference
Alan Featherstone, Rebourn History, ISBN 0-9541948-0-2