Runnymede, Kansas

Runnymede is an unincorporated community in Harper County, Kansas, United States.

[1] It is located northeast of Harper along K-2 state highway at the intersection of NE 140 Rd and NE 60 Ave. Runnymede was touted by an Irish promoter as a planned community in Kansas to wealthy Irish and Great British families in the United Kingdom as a place in a "dry" state where their sons could come to begin a career as gentlemen farmers.

Other buildings were moved two miles (3.2 km) south close to the new constructed rail line.

In 1891, the centerpiece of the town, a hotel, was partly disassembled and moved into the recently opened Cherokee Strip in Alva, Oklahoma in 1893.

A post office was opened in Runnymede in 1879, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1944.