Holford Mill

This is Holford Mill known to locals as Malkin's mill, the picture is taken from Holford Hall side looking back to Ascol drive date wise 1900. The mill was a popular picnic area in the 1950,s all that was left then was one of the vertical mill wheels was still standing and the mill pond which is  to the right of the picture was a large pool since silted up. The mill was an  important building in its day, it had four working grinders each fed with its own sluice also it had a special track running though the long wood direct to the mill. There has been a mill on this site since Saxon times. Earnest Malkin old malky to the locals was living and working in the mill aged 22 with his parents 1911 census.