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Mill Lane, CARSHALTON, SM5 2LE

Two terraces built c.2000 as part of the Grove Mill Place redevelopment behind the road.

Two late 19th Century three house terraces in Mill Lane, first marked on the 1896 25 inch map. The block beyond, 45 - 48 Mill Lane, was built c.2000 as part of the Grove Mill Place redevelopment behind the road. The 1871 6 inch map shows a four house terrace here.

Late 19th Century terraced housing in Mill Lane. The nearest block ha a name plaque "Grove Cottages"

Viewed looking upstream from the Papermill Close footbridge.

This is the Carshalton branch of the River Wandle as opposed to the Beddington branch. At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 there were something like 13 water mills on the River Wandle for grinding corn. The heyday of the river's industrial use came in the early 18th century when there were 68 water wheels on the Wandle, an average of one every 300 metres. Even in 1805 it was said that the Wandle was the hardest worked river for its size in the world. As steam engines and electric power came in, use of the old water wheels gradually ceased. By the mid-19th century the Wandle milling industries, crippled by falling water levels and the spread of the steam engine, were on the verge of collapse. Decline in the second half of the 19th century was rapid. Here looking upriver from Butter Hill, Ansell's Snuff Mill (which closed in 1896) and Denyer's Flour Mill used to stand on each side of the river. To the left of the river here is new housing. This used to be the site of a BP Chemicals factory which closed in 1991 and was demolished in 1992.

Pub in Mill Street, dating from 1868 and historically the Lord Palmerston but with the name shortened in 2016.

The name alludes to the paper making industry that used to exist along the River Wandle.