Terraced Houses with Benchmark, Hazelwell Road
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Terraced Houses with Benchmark, Hazelwell Road
Image: © Paul Collins Taken: 26 Jul 2024
These houses were built around the end of the 19th century and front directly onto the pavement. No. 1 Hazelwell Road (the nearest house) boasts an Ordnance Survey cut benchmark, which is just visible. Hazelwell Road was, at least until the 1880s, an undeveloped lane branching off the Pershore Road (itself originally a Roman Road at this point) to serve as access to Hazelwell Mill. The mill, on the River Rea was, according to old maps, a 'gunbarrel factory' in 1882; and in 1903 and 1937 a 'rubber goods factory'. Its site is now occupied by a trading estate.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.426328
Longitude
-1.920542