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A busy place in the summer and at weekends. Ducks are fed, Water voles live in the banks of the river. This area is surrounded by housing but this spot is really rather nicer.
©Robin Hall
In the foreground is Meadowbank - Walsworth Common is behind the first line of trees. The creamish partially obscured building in the centre is the Sailor Boy Public House. Out of the picture in the distance on the left is the rail line to Cambridge.
©Samir Jeraj
Dist:0.2km<br/>This bridge, number SBR-2, carries the Hitchin to Cambridge railway line over Woolgrove Road.
©Ben Harris
Dist:0.2km<br/>This sign guards the entrance to the Hitchin Industrial Estate.
©Ben Harris
Dist:0.2km<br/>This sign has clearly been here a while, since it names Hitchin Urban District Council, which was abolished no later than 1974.
©Ben Harris
Dist:0.3km<br/>This building on Woolgrove Road was once the Walsworth School founded by the Quaker Mary Exton in 1852. The nearby Mary Exton Junior Mixed Infants School was named in her honour.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>This small cluster of shops sits at the corner of Grove Road and Cadwell Lane. It includes a cafe, a convenience store, a barber, and a tattoo studio.
©Ben Harris
Dist:0.3km<br/>Building renovation works give the opportunity to fly the flag (or two in this case). Why the Sailor? Well, I read somewhere that at one time the River Ivel Navigation was to be extended to include the Rivers Hiz and Purwell, the latter of which is on the opposite side of the road to the pub.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Purwell is a tributary of the River Hiz and this is the point at which the footbridge linking Woolgrove Road and Walsworth Common crosses it.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>Used to be the Irvine parachute factory.
©Robin Hall
Dist:0.4km<br/>By one of the quirks of geography this is the point at which the smaller River Hiz enters the larger River Purwell over the weir structure bottom right, the Purwell being the watercourse in the main body of the picture. Having captured the Purwell the Hiz then carries on downstream with its own name.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>This Gurdwara, in a former industrial unit, is one of two on Wilbury Way.
©Ben Harris
Dist:0.4km<br/>This former corn mill was built at the confluence of the Rivers Hiz and Purwell, and was once possibly known as Burnt Mill. Victorian Ordnance Survey maps show Grove Mill and a large building called Grove House, since demolished, a short distance away up the hill towards Cadwell Lane. The mill has since been converted and is in use today as a nursery, Kinders Mill Nursery http://www.kindersmill.co.uk/page_viewer.asp?page=Home&pid=1
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is one of two Gurdwaras I saw on this industrial estate, and the OS map shows a third further up the road.
©Ben Harris
Dist:0.5km<br/>The Hiz rises to the south-west of Hitchin and flows in a generally north-easterly then a northerly direction to flow into the River Ivel. Here it passes through one of the arches of the East Coast Main Line railway Grove Road bridge, sharing the arch with a footpath.
©Nigel Cox

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