Guess the Place

[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.

[pete.mason]

Blue Bell Beltring

[johnfilmer]

Not Hadlow, Pete, but you have come the right distance west.


It was a popular country pub when I first knew it in the 70s. Very busy on a Sunday lunchtime. It had a function room, all with only a few houses close by.


There is/was a more basic “local” just down the hill as you look at the picture.

[pete.mason]

Hadlow area?

[johnfilmer]

Further west.

[John Walker]

Ditton area?

[johnfilmer]

Not there Pete.


In the words of that very annoying song that accompanies the “How not to die when your car breaks on a Smart motorway “ tv ad ... Go Left!


By the way I really would love to see the chunky driver in that ad get out the passenger door as said song instructs. I certainly can’t get over the tunnel in our Skoda Yeti, no idea where the gear-lever would end up

[pete.mason]

I'll take a stab at Brickmakers arms Maidstone

[johnfilmer]

South of A20