Todd Brook – tributary to the river Stort
Todd Brook flows south west towards the Stort
Post to the east Netteswellbury
Post to the west Hare Street
Town centre
This was laid out as set out in
Gibberd’s overall plan. the “Chief
Shopping Area” to be in the centre with “Civic Squares” and council offices in
the south of the centre focussed and local activities around Market Square to
the north. Now much of the original street structure has been removed
Broad
Walk
Seen as a unifying element in the original
plan.
Redstone House restricts the
original links with the Town Centre South as seen in the original plan
Obelisk by Gibberd,
concrete faced with Portland stone, erected in 1980 to commemorate the building
of Harlow
College
Square
St. Pauls Church. Harlow’s main parish church built in 1957-9
to the designs of Humphreys and Hurst. It is in brown stock brick with lots of
windows. A covered way goes over a platform
to a bell tower and wayside pulpit. The bells in the tower were brought from a
bomb-damaged East London church. Inside it is all bright colours, with Furniture
and fittings by Reginald Hurst. The Binns organ came from Monmouthshire and was
rebuilt in 1967. There is a 16th sculpture of the virgin and other
artistic elements including a Mural by John Piper his first mosaic. It was designed
to be able to compete with surrounding tower blocks and big buildings. It is joined with St. Marys church Little
Parndon
College. Harlow Technical College was originally sited near
the Town Hall. It was originally West
Essex College of further education, and was built between 1957 and 1968. It became an area technical college and was
renamed and began to expand into neighbouring buildings. It has since moved to
a new campus. Housing has been built on the old college site.
Cross
Street
Harlow Central Library
Crown
Gate
Beaufort House. Job Centre and other Government offices
Dad’s
Wood
Housing on the site of Harlow College.
Harberts Road
Northbrook Sports field
Trinity United Reform Church. Opened 1954
Northbrooks House now an adult training centre. Former
community centre
Veteran cedar tree beside Northbrooks
House
Toddbrook House now a veterinary surgery. This was Oldhouse Farm and has a 17th stair and turret
Synagogue. Harlow’s Jewish Community dates to the 1950's. In 1966 a Terrapin
prefabricated building was erected in two days and in 1987 a new building was
consecrated.
The Golden Swift, pub
Harvey
Centre.
Opened in 1981. The centre was provided under Gibberd’s plan for which he was consultant
and is a good example of an early British example of a large indoor shopping
mall. Now owned by Great Portland Estates
Kitson
Way
New road introduced outside of Gibberd’s master plan to allow
for serving of shops
William Aylmer, Wetherspoon's pub. Built in 1958, Alymer
House is named from a family who lived at Moor Hall, the earliest known member
of which was William Aylmer, in the 14th
Little
Grove Field
Hare Street Primary School. Built in the 1950s.
Meadows Children’s Centre
Second Avenue
Harlow Leisure Zone. Newly built.
Netteswell Plantation. Woodland with a stream, and willow
Heliport. Opened in 1955.
Originally it was a level grass in an "L," each arm being
100ft by 150ft with a concrete raft in the centre of each arm. There were no
buildings and no landing fees are being charged. It was opened by Royal Air Force Marshall Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, arriving in a B.E.A. Bristol
Sycamore. It is rarely used.
South Gate
Harlow Magistrates court
Odeon cinema. Rank’s first new cinema after the war which opened in 1960. It was
designed by T. P. Bennett & Son. In 1987, it closed for tripling and the
rear stalls were converted into two small cinemas. It was refurbished in 2001 but
was closed in 2005.
Playhouse Theatre. In 1957, a Theatre Working Party was set
up but it was only in 1970 that a foundation stone was laid by Jennie Lee,
Minister for the Arts. The theatre belonged, as it still does, to Harlow
Council. The Box Office (a hut which stood where Iceland is now) opened in
1971, and The Playhouse opened with a Gala Show starring, Lulu.
Terminus
Street
Bus station
The High
The area of the town centre
The Water Gardens
The Water Gardens was designed by
Gibberd with Gerry Perrin of Harlow Development Corporation Architect’s
Department in 1958/59. However they have been greatly changed by the
redevelopment of the town centre and the demolition of Gibberd’s Town Hall. It is
sited on the highest part of the area and the Town Hall tower was a focus. The gardens
were three parallel terraces with canals, fountains and ponds. The south side
of the square open up views of the Essex countryside. Two 250 yard canals were
at the top with fountains and sculptures below. The retaining wall was in blue
mosaic with seven concrete ‘lions head’ bas reliefs designed by William
Mitchell in 1963 and through them water flowed into the lower canal. Seven
smaller pools were below this surrounded by hedges. Rodin’s Eve, was put here
in 1966, Bronze Cross by Henry Moore in 1963, Hebe Comerford’s Bird in 1985 and
Elisabeth Frink’s Boar 1954 albeit replaced with a bronze. The whole area however
is being filled up with shops and restaurants and the like. It is now officially
described as a shopping centre.
Civic Centre built in 2004
Town Hall, Designed by Gibberd and now demolished.
Designed to strengthen the
identity of the town centre with taller buildings so there was a tower with a
rooftop observation pavilion
The Gibberd Gallery exhibition space in Harlow Civic Centre.
It in clued Harlow Council’s permanent art collection, the 'Frederick Gibberd
Collection of British Watercolours and Drawings’.
Third Avenue
The manor of Passmores was near the Todd brook and the Netteswell
boundary. It is in Domesday and by the 12th belonged to St. Mary Overy,
Southwark. In 1200 it was held by someone
called Passemer.
Passmores House. This was the site for Harlow Museum which
has now moved. It is now a centre for
people with a substance misuse problem.
A house of 1623 survives within the present building which was extended
in 1727, 1832 and 1921. The southern arm of a moat survives as a pond.
Outbuilding 18th Timber-framed and black weather
boarded
Todd Brook Tributary to the river Stort
Todd
Brook continues to flow west and south west
Post to the east Latton
Post to the west The High
Long
Ley
The
Moors. A long thin glade with woodland, grassland and stream
Maddox Road
Pypers
Hatch. The Hatches were small local
areas providing shops and facilities in the New Town plans.
Manston
Road
Netteswell Rectory, Red brick house 1760. Now a care home.
Monkswick Road
Sydenham
House Clinic
Jack
and Jill’s Nursery
The
Heart and Club. Local bar – the name is that of a sort of moth and reflects the
use in the New Town to call pubs after butterflies and moths.
Second Avenue
Netteswell
Pond. The embanked monastic fishponds of Netteswellbury built on behalf of
Waltham Abbey in the 1060s. At the south
side are the remains of the walled garden of the Martin family with lived here
in the 17th. This is now a fishery.
Tendering Road
Playing
fields
Tripton Road
St
Marks West Essex Catholic Secondary School. An academy school
Waterhouse Moor
The
Nettleswellbury Manor was part of the endowment of Waltham Abbey by Harold
Godwin in 1060. After the dissolution it passed through various ownerships as a
farm. In the 17th a big house
was built here by the Martin family, but was eventually replaced by the farm
house.
Church of St Andrew. 13th church built of coursed
flints and pebbles which may have been built in association with the manor here
by Waltham Abbey. There is a bell turret with broach spire and a timber framed
porch. Inside, a red brick panel has the rebus of late 15th Abbot
Rose, of Waltham Abbey. On either side
of the altar is panelling from the 17th house here built by the
Martin family. It is now part of the
study centre having been made redundant in 1978.
The
Humming Bird. Built in 1969 on the site
of some of the churchyard.
Nettwellsbury
Farm. Harlow Council Care Home.
Harlow
Study Centre. Closed.
Monks Barn.
15th building, timber-framed with aisles
to north and south and black weatherboarding. The carpentry is said to be
outstanding particularly in regard to jointing.
The barn was damaged in a fire in 1970 but has been restored.
Barn. 15th building timber framed with black
weatherboards.
Agricultural buildings 15th with timber frame and
black
weatherboards
Netteswellbury House. Early 19th plastered brick
house
Todd Brook – tributary to the River
Stort
Todd Brook flows west towards the
Stort
Post to the east Potter Street
Post to the west Netteswellbury
A414
London Road, built in the 1960s as a
bypass to the traditional London Road to the east.
Gravel Pit springs. Nature area and
reserve
Highfield
Including some urban woodland
Latton Street
Latton Street began as Mill Lane from
the mill on the Stort and continued as Latton Street to and Purfoots Green and
southwards.
Latton Farm.
School House. 19th house
in grey brick. This was the 19th village school provided by
Arkwright of Mark Hall.
Puffers Green. Also called Purfoots Green
possibly named from Thomas Proudfoot, who had an estate here in the 14th
Coppins. This was once called ‘Purfoots’.It
is a timber-framed house, probably a late medieval hall house. Outbuilding
on the east side is 16th in red brick
Brick cottages built in the 19th
century for the Mark Hall estate. This was down to members of the Arkwright family
– descendants of the inventor – who developed the area and estate in the mid 19th.
Azelea. Plaque which has 'M 1878' on
it. Said to have been built as almshouses by the Arkwright family.
Puffers House. House
built in 1864 with a clock tower which has a timber spire and wind-vane. Brick
house with a central front door in the shape of an arch inscribed 'work while
it is day'. Cast iron rails at the front garden.
Round house, built c. 1750 said to be
of Dutch design, demolished 1955.
Pytt field
Pot house, used by 17th
potters was probably near the junction with Carters Mead
Second Avenue
Nicholls Field playing field. Mural
and pavilion
Tillwick Road
The Phoenix. Took over the licence of
the Kings Head in 1957 – which it is probably when it was built. Live gig pub
Todd Brook Tributary to the River Stort
Todd
Brook rises in this area and flows north
Post to the east Church Langley
Post to the west Latton
Brenthall Wood
Ancient
woodland with a pond. Piggeries now demolished.
Church Langley Way
Church
Langley community centre
Church
Langley primary school
Potters Arms. New ‘family’ pub
Kingsdon Lane
Used
to be called Mill Lane
Kingsdon Hall. House built 1700 timber
framed and rendered. Site of the home of Thomas atte Crosse. In the mid-14th
it was the home of someone called Kingstone.
It may have been used as a school in the 19th.
Mallards Rise
Barn
for Barnsley Cottage. This is a 16th aisled barn, timber framed and,
weather boarded. The posts and main
components are medieval but the structure is 16th
Barnsley
Cottage
Minton Lane
Reservoir. Used as a fishing pond. This was built in the
late 1960s as a reservoir partly to provide water for Soper’s Farm and it was
known as Soper’s Tank. It is now a private fishery – Church Langley Fishery.
Potter Street
Potter Street was of course the old main London Road replaced
by the rebuilt London Road to the west in the 1960s.
Potter Street is probably named for potters who worked
here. A house called Pot House was leased to two potters in the 17th.
This may refer to cottages between Pyatt Field and Carter’s Mead.
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S & J Juniper. Laboratory equipment works
Red Lion Lane
Kitchen
Hall. At the conquest the manor was given to Eustace Earl of Boulogne. The Farmhouse is 17th
Timber framed and roughcast rendered
Windmill
held by Kitchen Hall was to the south on the common.
Thames Tributary River Stort.
The Stort flows westwards
Fiddlers Brook flows south east towards the Stort
Post to the north Gilston Park
Post to the east Harlow
Post to the west Eastwick
Allende Avenue
This was previously Fifth Avenue and is now part of the
A414
Burnt Mill
Industrial and warehousing area.
Burnt Mill Lane
Burnt Mill = the area here was a settlement and an industrial
village in the 19th.
Burnt Mill. This was originally Netteswell Mill, built
by Waltham abbey dates from the 12th. Known as Burnt Mill since the 16th
it became derelict and was demolished in the 19th.
Gilston Mill. On the bank upriver of Burnt Mill. This was a cloth
and fulling mill later converted to corn
Burnt
Mill. Factory built on the site of the Burnt Mill. Two-storey, brick-built with
a slate roof, this late 19th foundry was built for the marine
engineers John Kirkcaldy Ltd. from Limehouse who occupied it until 1930s when
they lost Admiralty order. They also built associated housing. Some buildings were demolished and the rest
taken for use as a grocery warehouse and then a projector factory. Now Harlow
Outdoors, Centre for Outdoor Learning.
Harlow Town Station. Built in 1842
for the Great Eastern Railway as Burnt Mill station. The current building is listed grade II, built
in 1959-60 as the main station for Harlow New Town by John Bicknell and Paul
Hamilton, fir British Railways Eastern Region.
The waiting room is situated on the bridge and it has a glass-fronted booking hall with a large entrance canopy linked to the
over bridge. Towers rise above it
housing lift machinery for handing small goods such as parcels.
Terlings Park. This was the site of a manor house there since the 16th and latterly Terling’s Park
House with a boathouse and 2 lodges. It was in outbuildings here that Harlow New Town
was planned. It was taken over by the Post
Office in 1968 and subsequently the the main house and outbuildings were demolished. It was taken over by Merke,
Sharp and Dohme in 1981 and they used it as a research and development centre focussing on
neuroscience. They added an incinerator, a robotics laboratory and offices. The site closed in 2006 and
to be used for housing.
Burnt Mill Lock. This was built as a turf sided lock
in 1766/9 and rebuilt in brick/concrete in 1913.
Lock-house. Built in 1799 with outhouses and sheds.
The original elevation faced the lock with two plaques – one with ‘GD’ for George
Duckett plus the red hand and the date 1799. The other, LC for Lee Conservancy
rebuilt 1913. It was replaced by a modern bungalow in the 1960’s.
Sculpture by Graeme Mitcheson "Short Stort
Thoughts" put alongside the lock in 2007. It uses a series of globe shapes
to show the link that the Stort Navigation has provided between Harlow and the
rest of the world.
Moorhen. One of the Hungry Horse chain since 2010. Previously
a boathouse it was rebuilt as a pub in the 1990s. The boathouse dated from the
1950s and was used for boat storage with an adjacent swimming pool
Moorhen Marina. This lake was previously used for model boats and is
accessed via a moveable lift bridge.
Parndon Moat Marsh, Part of the Harlow Marsh Nature
Reserve. It is between the Stort and the railway. It is the site of a 12th moated
manor house, Little Pardon Hall. This was rebuilt on an adjacent site in the 17th
and then demolished for the railway.
Burnt Mill Sewage Works. To the east of the moat
Eastwick Road
The western part of the road is part of the A414
straightened in 1960
Eastwick Lodge Farm. Owned by the Carter Family who have been
there since 1933 when it was mixed and dairy. The village of Eastwick was bypassed
in the 1960s and the village shop closed. Thus the farm began to sell produce. The new road also meant it was impractable to
take cows across it twice a day so the farm concentrated on shop sales. Farm building
now also house a variety of businesses.
Dusty Miller. Built in 1846 this was the Baker’s
Arms, changed to the Railway Inn in the 1970s when it was purchased by the
Brewers. In the 1950s it was renamed
Dusty Miller which is apparently a fishing fly.
Edinburgh Way
Area of the road between here and the station was a
field called Millers Wells – and full of water. Later site of Spring Street and
housing.
Tunmannmeade – was an area of strip holdings
Longman Green’s Offices. Publishing house founded by Thomas Longman in the early 18th. Their Paternoster Row offices were destroyed in 1940 bombing
and they eventually moved to Harlow on the site of Millers Wells. They are now part
of the US firm Pearson Longman.
Toby Carvery
Spring Street
Housing was built here in the 19th and a
Baptist chapel. Since demolished.
Bus depot and station entrance.Post to the west Harlow
Thames Tributary River Stort
The Stort flows south west and is joined by Fiddlers
Brook from the north west
Post to the north Pole Hill
Post to the east Burnt Mill Harlow
Edinburgh Way
In 1952 The Duke of Edinburgh visited what was then
Temple Fields Industrial Estate and thus the road was named. It was, and to some extent is, an area of
trading estates and some substantial factories – some of the longer established
are shown below. Much of the road now is full of garish burger and pizza bar,
cheap entertainment venues, ‘big shed’ retailers and such like.
The
Kao-Hockham Building. Now the offices of Harlow Enterprise Hub, this was
formerly Great Eastern House purchased by Harlow Council in 2006. It was built
in the 1960s for Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd, the British telecommunications company
dating from 1883. They had had laboratories in Harlow
from the 1950s where in 1966, Charles Kao demonstrated that light rather than
electricity could be used to transmit speech. Taken over by Nortel in 1991 who
remained in site, but have recently sold the business.
Raytheon. They took over Cossor Electronics who had
pioneered cathode ray tubes and later all sorts of TV, radio, radar etc. They
moved to Harlow in 1958 in Edinburgh Place where the first British V.H.F.
radios were made. In the late 1950s they moved to Elizabeth Way. In 1961 Cossor
was acquired by Raytheon and they continue with Major advances in Radar.
Johnson Matthey Metals, opened in 1954 as the Harlow
Metal Co. Their huge Harlow Plant was demolished and they seem no longer to
have a presence in Harlow – although as a vast multinational there seems to be
very few places where they don’t have a factory or two. Johnson
Matthey has been involved with precious metals since 1817 at Hatton Garden
where Johnson was in businesses as an Assayer with a gold refinery there in the
1830s –later moving into silver, nickel and much else, particularly platinum.
They grew and grew and grew through the 20th. In 1953 Harlow Metal
Co. Ltd. was formed to merge the company's mechanical production interests. It
was a huge works – but the company histories never mention it.
OI – United Glass Containers, which originated partly as
Key Glassworks in New Cross. United Glass had had the largest glass factory
in Europe in Charlton, but high south London wages led to their move to Harlow.
It is now owned by some American company but manufactures
and markets glass containers in Britain from Harlow. The company also owns a
silica-sand quarry in Scotland
Harlow
Marsh
Marshgate
Spring. The marshland is on the flat area near the railway with ditches and
reed beds. Woodland slopes from the Queensgate Centre and contains springs that
feed the marsh. There is oak, hornbeam, ash, hazel, and willow.
Queensgate
Retail Centre
Glebelands
Contrapuntal
Forms, Sculpture by Barbara Hepworth commissioned for the Festival of Britain where
it stood outside the Dome of Discovery this is two blue limestone monoliths which
look very hard to vandalise.
School
Lane
Marsh
Gate Farm, was once called Redmells Farm. Timber-framed and weather boarded,
probably dates from the late 17th
Barn
weather boarded, used by the Parks Dept. as a store and depot. Burnt down 2010.
Council
Depot
Thames
Tributary Fiddlers Brook
The
Fiddlers Brook flows south east towards the River Stort
Post to the north Gilston
Post to the east Pole Hill
Post to the south Burnt Mill
Eastwick
Road
Fiddlers
Bridge.18th red brick bridge.
Gilston
Park
This
had been farmland with a manor house called Netherhall which had been set up after
the Conquest and had a succession of wealthy owners. In 1550, Henry Chauncy bought
Netherhall and rebuilt it as a stone house called New Place. In the 17th the land around the house was
enclosed by Humphrey Gore and then became the area of the park. Under later
successive wealthy owners the house and gardens became grander and
grander. In 1850 it was bought by John Hodgson
who rebuilt everything in the area as a model this or that and also rebuilt the
big house. Later it was owned by the Bowlby family and in the Second World War
became an officers' billet and then a military hospital for the RAF. After the war
it was became a country club and was taken over by Hammer Films who made some
films there and then by Smith and Nephew who built a laboratory in the grounds.
It has now been turned into private housing.
The
House with 'IH' '1852' on the entrance porch built by Philip Hardwick for John
Hodgson. Later in 1887 additions were made by A W Blomfield. It is built in limestone
rubble in a Tudor style. To the rear is a turret game larder and above a
battlemented square clock tower. There is a glass and iron conservatory with a Grotto
and pool
Lake.
Ornamental Lake formed in the 19th by damming the Fiddlers Brook. There is a
dam at both ends but the one at the north end includes ac cascade. This was a
reworking of an earlier dam by Philip Hardwick for John Hodgson. The central
overflow became a waterfall or cascade over a cliff of artificial stone. In
1902 it was used to drive an electric turbine the foundations of which remain
The
Chase –this is a wood which was the site of a medieval manor called Giffards –
the remains consist of an earth mound and a moat.
Garden
house which is in fact the remains of New Place which preceded the present big
house at Gilston Park. It is in effect a 19th porch. This is stucco made to
look like stone and there is a bust of Elizabeth with underneath "Fear God.
Obaye. The Rial. Queen/Spaines Rod; Romes Rvine Netherlandes Reliefe; Earthes
joy, England's gemme, World's Wonder, Natures Chief".
Pye
Corner
Plume
of Feathers Pub. 300 years old and originally a house. Timber framed and
plastered the manor courts were held here from 1702 and in the mild 19th it was
the Plummer-Ward's Arms. Outbuildings
consist of a 18th timber framed and weather boarded old cow house
War
Memorial. Simple column and cross to the dead in the Great War
2618th
house
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House with '1864' on a gable. Red brick, estate house built by Gilston Park
Estate under John Hodgson.
28
House with '1860' on a gable. A red brick, estate cottage in a slightly
different style to others built by the Gilston Park Estate under John Hodgson.
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Shiptons. 17th house. Timber framed and plastered House once used as a shop
30
17th house timber framed, and plastered
44
Fiddlers Cottage. 17th house timber framed and roughcast this was once three
houses.
88
- 89 two 18th Timber framed house-once a single house
Cast
iron pump with double spurred spout near corner of 88
Broadleaf
sawmill
Village
hall. Built in 1908 by one of the Bowlbys. Over the door is a memorial plaque
and armorial shield
Thames Tributary Fiddlers Brook
Fiddlers Brook (aka Golden Brook) flows south towards
the River Stort
Post to the east Sayes Park
Post to the north Acton's Lane
Post to the south Gilston Park
Gilston Park. The
laboratory research complex was set up by of Smith & Nephew in the 1950s,
the multinational pharmaceutical group.
The area has now been developed for housing. (The house and most of the
park is in the square to the south
Fiddlers Brook going through the park to the lake.
Church Lane.
Overhall Farm. Set up after the conquest by Norman Geoffrey de Mandeville as a manor house called Overhall or
Upper Hall. It passed through various
owners and is now a farm.
St Mary. Originally this was a 13th flint hilltop church of a deserted medieval village with a brick tower –
which was rebuilt in the 16th and now had battlements and a spike. Then, in
1852 it was ‘restored’ by Philip Hardwick for John
Hodgson of Gilston Park. There is
a 13th screen which is an early example of woodwork. The font is 12th.
It is said that once there were medieval
wall paintings of devils and sinners. There is a monument to Bridget Gore 1659, a white
standing figure in shrouds. The organ was built by Bedwell & Sons for the
drawing-room at Gilston Park, and was given by the squire. It was rebuilt in
1939.
Gilston Green Lane
Channocks Farm. Farm house with
the date '1854' and 'IH' on plaques – the IH is for John Hodgson Esq of Gilston
Park. This is a brock building on the pattern for farms on the Gilston Park
Estate and similar to the others. Barn
and farm buildings - the date '1854' is shown on a gable. This is a group with
a timber framed weather boarded barn and brick buildings around a horse yard and
a cattle yard. These were model farm
buildings from John Hodgson's Gilston Park Estate 1854 redevelopment and
perhaps by architect Philip Hardwick
Stable Cottage. This has the date of '1868' and 'IH' on date
stones, and it was built for John Hodgson Esq of Gilston Park.
Channocks Farm Cottages
Golden Hill
Rectory Plantation
Dairy Cottages
Rectory. This has 'AD 1889' on a brick panel. It was built by
Fred Chancellor for E S Bowlby of Gilston Park in red brick and Arts and
Crafts style. Sold in 1978 .
Gilston Lane
Church Cottages. Two houses with'1852' on the gable. These are estate
houses on a prominent corner site built for the Gilston Park Estate under John
Hodgson.
Black Cottage. 17th house later extended timber framed and plastered
hillside house
Cumberland Lodge. The date or '1855' is on a gable. Built as the Lodge to Gilston Park for
John Hodgson and probably by Philip Hardwick and in similar materials to the main
house. Called Cumberland because the main estate of the Hodgson family was at
Bowness in Cumberland,
Thames Tributary Fiddlers Brook
Fiddlers Brook flows south towards the River Stort
Post to the east Manor of Groves
Post to the south Gilston
Actons Lane
Actons Farm. Farm house on moated manorial site. It is 16th probably built
for the Leventhorpe family but changed in the 18th. There is also an 18th brick bake house. The oven
projects under a wooden shelter. Barn, cart shed and byre with bats. On
the farm is a mature Dutch, or weeping elm.
Maplecroft Wood. Ancient ash
and hazel woodland with hornbeam, field maple and elm – some coppiced. In the centre
is replanted ash, oak, hazel and cherry.
Great Penny’s Farm. Granary 18th - timber
framed and weather boarded building. Great Pennys barns are a modern self build project.
Golden Grove. Ancient former elm coppiced woodland. There is also hornbeam, maple, ash
and wych elm with some planted conifer. In the spring there are bluebells and
patches of primroses
Keepers
Thames Tributary River Stort
The Stort flows westwards and is
joined by the Pole Hole Brook from the north.
Post to the east Harlow Temple
Post to the north Sayes Park
Post to the west Gilston Park
Post to the south Harlow
Eastwick Road
Pole Hole Farm
Pole Hole Quarry.
This is the former domestic
waste tip for Harlow. Landfill gas generated.
On the sides of the tip the local geological sections could be seen - boulder clay interweaved with sand.
Vine Grove – houses on the site of Vine Farm,
which stood here until the mid 19th.
Pye Corner – on the east side of the
road was the Gilston workhouse
Hollingson Meads
Hollingson Meads
Quarry. Active sand and gravel workings
Pole Hill
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18th House. Timber frame plastered and roughcast.
Stort
Latton Lock. Built in the 1760s a turf
sided structure and rebuilt in brick and concrete in 1915 – and the joins between
the two levels of stonework can be seen. One of the original quoin stones for the gate hinge remains.
Latton Mill. This was
north of the lock and on Harlow side of the bridge to the north of the lock. It
was first noted in 1449 and closed in 1926. Some foundations remain. It was yet
another mil run by the Barnard family
Latton Island House. Demolished
– it was downstream of the lock. Some foundations remain. A plaque over the
door read: “Man may come and man may go but the river goes on for ever”. In the
1890s it was the home of the
Stort Navigation’s ex-engineer who had bought
it from the owners in 1889
Sculpture "Mill" by Nicola Burrell put here in 2007
Latton Island also part of area called
Maymead Marsh.
Tributary to the River Stort
The Tributary flows south
Post to the north Manor of Groves
Post to the east Redrick Lane
Post to the south Pole Hill
Post to the west Gilston
High Wych Road
Fox Earths
Sayes Park Farm. The manor of Sawbridgeworth was passed in 1189 to Beatrice
de Say and the manor took the name of Sayesbury and her family took on the
manorial rights and duties. The manor passed through many hands and came to the
crown in 1553 when it was leased. In 1572–3 Sayes Park farm was leased to
William Lord Burghley, and later other important government officials. In 1689
this consisted of the manor of Sayesbury, Sayes Park farm and other properties –
including mills and Sayes Coppice. What is left is Sayes Park Farm – including Park
Field, Corn Park, and Grass Park which preserve the name of the ancient manorial
park, and Dovehouse Field the manorial dovecote. The land around it was once a deer park.
Tributary to the River Stort
The Tributary flows south
Post to the south Harlow Temple
Post to the east Pishiobury Park
Post to the west Sayes Park Farm
Chaseways
Rowney Farm. 17th-18th farmhouse, Timber
framed and plastered. This was part of the Pishiobury estate sold in 1865 when
some of the farm buildings were erected. The name of Rowneys dates from the mid
18th.. In the 1860s ground here
was laid out for a local cricket club.
High Wych Road
Redrick Lane
Water Pumping Station. This belonged to the Herts
and Essex Waterworks Co Ltd. Now Veolia, it was previously Three Valleys Water
Co. There are bore holes and a reservoir
on the site
Waterworks cottages
Oakridge Nursery
