The Three Rivers Museum

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Located in Rickmansworth High Street, in Basing House (itself of historical significance as the former home of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania).

The Three Rivers Museum houses an interesting and varied collection of historical artefacts and old photographs of the Three Rivers Area.  A range of permanent and temporary displays provides a visual history of the area its development, buildings, personalities, transport, local businesses and industries - while our collection of memorabilia provides a wider perspective on bygone times.

Three Rivers

What other area of comparable size can claim such a fascinating range of historical connections

•  It is the former centre of Britain's Paper-making Industry

•  the Grand Union Canal

•  A Chartist village

•  Moor Park Mansion

•  Famous musicians and architects

•  A Saddleback Church (which is one of only three in the country)

•  the Ovaltine Model Farms

•  William Penn once lived in Rickmansworth and was married at

•  Rickmansworth,  the home of Arthur Dent (from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

The museum seeks to cover as many facets of the Three Rivers as possible, from Abbots Langley, through Sarratt, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth and Croxley Green, to South Oxhey. Exhibits and displays are supplemented by a range of free leaflets offering potted biographies of characters associated with the area and walks that take in buildings of historic interest.