Stanstead Abbotts, View From Cats Hill c.1960
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Running downhill into Stanstead Abbots from the north-east, Cats Hill presents a formidable hazard to modern motorists. It was not so in the 1960s, without a vehicle in view. In the 1600s it would not have been the horse-drawn wagons that the visitor first noticed, but more likely the smell, for Stanstead Abbots was a centre for the manufacture of woad. Queen Elizabeth would not have a woad mill within five miles of any of her palaces, and it is reported that at Stanstead visitors were 'constrained to stop their nosses as they go bye, the stink is so grate'. Today, Cats Hill is notorious for out-of-control vehicles careering into the dwellings.
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