Sports
- Rushden & Higham RUFC was founded in 1951 and is currently based on the Bedford Road in Rushden with a 1st-XV, 2nd-XV, 3rd-XV and Colts-XV.
- Rushden and Higham United Football Club, the successor to both Higham Town and Rushden Rangers clubs, are members of the Hereward Teamwear United Counties League and have their ground at Hayden Road.
- Higham Ferrers Town Cricket Club, based at the recreation grounds on Vinehill Drive, was established in 1881 and has a 1st-XI and 2nd-XI as well as an under 17's-XI and under 15's-XI.
- Higham Ferrers Town Bowls Club was founded in 1946 and is also at the recreation grounds on Vinehill Drive.
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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)