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Millfields, CHESHAM, HP5 1SG

Bois Moor Road crosses a small stream on the outskirts of Chesham, Buckinghamshire.

These two comparatively small but quite prominent bridge parapets protect what is an important culvert under the road, as it is appears to be the only surface location where the River Chess can cross under the road apart from the main one at the former Lord's Mill. There is a stone plaque in the right one in this photograph with some text and a date that reads 1860.

A shallow stream on the outskirts of Chesham, Buckinghamshire

Situated in Moor Road HP5 1SE, this board has a photo by Matt Writtle and the following wording: THE RIVER MEADOW AT THE PILE OF STONES BY MATT WRITTLE LIDO During the mid 19th-century a new era of contemporary European artists were rediscovering the appeal of the swimming hole. Water and nudity were pushing at the boundaries of rigid Victorian society and creating space for new ideas, freedoms and creativity. Wordsworth, Coleridge and De Quincey spent much time bathing in the mountain pools of the Lake District in search for the 'picturesque' and 'sublime'. In the Waterside area of Chesham, a lagoon fed by the River Chess caused consternation with local residents, who complained of a bathing nuisance, as wild swimmers would swim naked. In 1898 the local council agreed to put a corrugated iron fence between the well-used pool and the houses opposite. One hundred and twenty-two years later, this is now the manicured Chesham Moor Gym and Swim, complete with outdoor heated pool and tennis courts.

Thirteen months on from Image and the River Chess now has at least half a metre of water in it. This is taken from the same footbridge but looking in the opposite direction and upstream.

The barn is attached to Image] and is also a Grade II Listed Building. The Historic England website describes it thus:- "C17 or earlier. Timber frame, weatherboarding, tiled roof. Included for group value. Lord's Mill and Lord's Mill House and barn form a group." In fact Lord's Mill itself was demolished in the 1980s. The Ordnance Survey map editions of 1898 and 1925 both describe this building as the Riverside Iron Works, so evidently it was not used in any milling activities by at least the earlier of the two dates.