Rushden Research Group: Around the Church & Green

Home Close

Home Close cottages belonged to the Rushden Hall Estate.
The new Scout Headquarters was built behind the site.

The area now covered by Orbit Tyres was used as a bus park by United Counties, before they built a new depot in Newton Road.

The Scouts used the ground as a parade area to form-up before church parades or town carnival events and to practise marching.

The Rushden Echo and Argus, 18th November, 1949

Skinner’s Hill, Rushden has changed considerable since it presented this largely rural view, and the present parking place for buses is decidedly less picturesque than were the cottages where Samuel Knight was the principal character. Some features remain, however—the trees bordering Rushden Hall, the Claridge factory (right) and the building on the extreme left.

Skinner's farm oubuildings and slaughterhouse, with the gate across the lane to the Hall.

The two cottages right (rear view) of the lane are part of
"Home Close" where Samuel Knight once lived, now the site
of the Scout Headquarters