Mills and Ponds

Mills and Ponds on the Darent in Westerham

The Darent rises in Westerham and meets the Thames at Dartford. The Darent River Preservation Society has a website here.

Little Mill is the smallest of three mills in Westerham

This an old picture of Mill Wheel but its location is unknown

Upper Mill was the highest mill up the stream and also the smallest and sited by the second lake in Spring Shaws. Its structure was square in plan with a steeply pitched tiled roof. This really was a very neat little mill as can be seen from the photograph shown below. Conversations with old local residents

Here is a picture of the Long Pond