Mill End, Rickmansworth
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Mill End is a suburb of
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in
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,
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. Most of it is an
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, not being within a
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, although part of the built-up area comes under
Chorleywood Chorleywood is a village and civil parish in the Three Rivers District, Hertfordshire, on the border with Buckinghamshire, approximately northwest of Charing Cross. The village is adjacent to the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Be ...
Parish Council. All of Mill End forms part of
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and so is administered by
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and
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.


History

Mill End was historically a
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in the parish of Rickmansworth. By the 1870s, Mill End had church buildings and so had become a
village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
; it was no longer a hamlet. It contained St. Peter's Church (built in 1874–5) and a Baptist chapel. St Peter's was a small flint building with Bath-stone dressings. The village also had a paper mill, tannery, and brewery. Mill End was included within the Rickmansworth
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from its creation in 1898 until it was abolished in 1974. Another notable ancient structure at Mill End was a
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farmhouse called Shepherds Farm, mentioned in a 1294
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with a reference to Robert Le Schephard. The subsidy roll of 1534 records the name of Robert Lane. The Lane family farmed there until 1773, when Joseph Lane sold the farm to Joseph Swannell. By 1839 the Thelluson trustees had bought it. They built a new farmhouse and used the original farmhouse as lodgings for single men employed on the farm.
Tornado Cars Tornado Cars Ltd was founded in 1957 by Bill Woodhouse and Tony Bullen based in Mill End, Rickmansworth, Mill End, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England. The first model was the Typhoon Sports, available either as a body for fitting to Ford of ...
used to manufacture
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s at 90 Uxbridge Rd, Mill End. The company sold the cars either factory finished or in component form (in which case the buyer was responsible for assembling the car from the components). The first model was shown to the press in August 1958 and production of cars stopped in 1964. Tornado Cars won the 750 Motor Clubs' Six Hour Handicap Relay Race at
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twice and, at its peak, employed 60 people. The new Fairway Tyre Services building on the site is called "Tornado House" as a tribute. Most of Mill End is unparished, but the part of it north of Oakfield is in Chorleywood Civil Parish.


Geography

London is just to the south of Mill End (Mill End borders the
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).


Notable people


Harry Edwin Curtis

Harry Edwin Curtis JP (known as H.E. Curtis) was living in Springwell Lodge (276 Uxbridge Road) Mill End when he died on 8 December 1948. He had been a Hertfordshire County Council
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and a chairman of Rickmansworth Urban District Council "who worked for the good of Mill End for many years and who had taken great interest in the welfare of old people". When Springwell Avenue, Mill End was built (in December 1925), Rickmansworth Urban District Council named it after Curtis' home, Springwell Lodge. In 1953 the council named Curtis Close (which contained bungalows for old people) in commemoration of Curtis. These road names were kept in 1972 when their pre-fabricated bungalows and houses were demolished and rebuilt.


Job Lane

Job Lane (1620–1697) emigrated to America from Shepherds Farm, Mill End, in 1649 (with his brothers James and Edward). He was a carpenter who built bridges and houses in the
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, Massachusetts area. He also imported goods from England. In 1664, Lane became the owner of 1,500 acres of land in Billerica in exchange for building a mansion at
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for Fitz John Winthrop, the grandson of Governor Winthrop. This land is now one-fifth of
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. Lane also built one of the college buildings in
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.


References


External links


Photographs of Stockers Lake, Mill End
(wildlife, fish, and the Grand Union Canal's Stockers Lock) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mill End, Rickmansworth Three Rivers District Geography of Three Rivers District