Guess the Place

[pete.mason]

West Kent

[John Walker]

East Kent ?

[pete.mason]

i had it in my mind earlier on but couldn't remember the name. i once picked my brother in law up from there with his& our kids, They'd gone metal detectoring in the woods & couldn't remember/find  where they were parked    Scenic tour of the lanes looking for a car!!   Another dead pub, then a restaurant then a house now seemingly back to a pub

[johnfilmer]

You have it Pete.
In1976 I had started small-bore target shooting in a disused quarry in Borough Green, and my girlfriend (now wife) was having horse riding lessons at a farm in Crouch. So we and a few others would meet up in the pub on Sunday lunchtime after our activities. Happy Days!

[pete.mason]

Chequers Crouch

[johnfilmer]

You are all way too South.

[pete.mason]

Whetsted?

[johnfilmer]

That’s the right river JW, but not East Peckham, and remember this pub is some way up the side of the valley with the river, mill, etc below.

[John Walker]

River Bourne, East Peckham.  Near Little Mill  ?

[johnfilmer]

GSV has images of the building work in progress when viewed from one side of the junction behind the photo view.


It looks as though they have retained the old pub sign, suitably altered, for the name of the new development. The sign features a tree, not an oak, walnut, chestnut or most other trees used in pub names. They planted some of these trees near my old house to celebrate the millennium, but they did not survive.


Other pubs/inns of this name use an alternative emblem on their signs, rather than the tree of the same name.

[johnfilmer]

The one with the extant millpond was a paper mill. I think the missing one was corn.

[pete.mason]

Are we talking grain mills or powder mills?

[johnfilmer]

Not the Medway, and apart from the millpond, it’s more of a stream although marked as a river on maps.


The mill is there in name these days, replaced by housing. There was another mill at the next lane, which also joins the hill from the pub down to the river, but there is no evidence on GSV.

[John Walker]

Is the water the River Medway?

[johnfilmer]

Not far from water, it’s at the bottom of the hill. Mill as well.