Higham Ferrers

Higham Ferrers is a market town in East Northamptonshire, adjacent to (and forming a single urban area with) Rushden to the south. The De Ferrers family were former Lords of the Manor. The town was one of the rotten boroughs and sent one MP to the unreformed House of Commons until it was stripped of its representation by the Reform Act 1832.

Higham Ferrers is also the birthplace of Henry Chichele.

Transport

Higham Ferrers was the terminus of a short railway branch line on the Midland Railway from Wellingborough. There was an intermediate station at Rushden.