Standon, The Ford c.1965
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S377015
More about this scene
A few yards south of the paper mill, the trackway crosses the River Rib through a gently flowing ford. Gently flowing, that is, until the winter showers or the spring sun melts the snow, when the Rib becomes a raging torrent. Many motorists have been caught out and found themselves taking an unexpected route to Standon Lordship and Latchford. The mill was one of the two main Hertfordshire paper works (the other was at Nash and Apsley Mills in the west of the county), but it fell into decline and is now a private residence. Apart from some mechanism, all that remains is Laundry Mead to the left of the view; here, it is said, the rags were hung out to dry before being mashed by the mill's trip hammers to make high quality rag paper.
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