The pond takes its name from a public house which stood to the left of this picture. Shows shop
Laid out just before the Great War, Millway had to wait until after the war to be developed Number 5 Millway is on the left
Reputedly haunted by the landlady of The Three Crowns inn who either murdered or was murdered by her lover
The traveller Celia Fiennes, on whom the nursery rhyme "Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross" is based, lived here from 1713 to 1737, however it is also famous as the location for a Dakota air crash in 1950
This is a view of the road below the Rising Sun public house, the 1920s tudor house on the right being now called The Knoll
A classic example of interwar mock tudor at the corner of Nan Clarks Lane
All of these houses were demolished by the 1930s, the strange pyramidical roof in the background being St Mary's Abbey
The old forge at Holcombe Hill was the last active forge in Mill Hill and in later life was a tea shop
Originally Holcombe House (designed by John Johnson in 1778) it became a Franciscan convent 1881. The chapel with its distinct pyramid roof was added in 1889. There was a girl's school until 1977.
Forge at the foot of Holcombe Hill from at least 1821 when Charles Balaam was smith. It survived until 1932, and for another 20 years it was a shop and tea rooms.
