Landmarks and Buildings
Hawridge Mill, also known as Cholesbury Mill, is a disused tower mill which straddles the boundary between Hawridge and Cholesbury villages. It is now a private residence but was until 1912 in operation and on the site of an earlier smock mill.
Residents and visitors in the First World War period included a number of artists and celebrities, including Gilbert Cannan, Mark Gertler, Betrand Russell, and the actress Doris Keane.
The original site of the manor house was Hawridge Court which is now a Scheduled Monument. The ringwork which remains almost intact and surrounded the original manor house is thought to have been constructed shortly after the Norman Conquest. It is oval in shape measuring 60 by 50 metres in diameter, is bounded by a rampart two metres high and external ditch which includes a deep moat for part of its circumference. A gap and causeway marks the probable original entrance. The moated manor house which was built by 1223 was replaced by a 16th century Grade II listed, timber-framed Tudor cottage occupied periodically by the Lord of the Manors of Hawridge and Cholesbury. Additional buildings were constructed around 1700. The water-pumping station at Nut Hazel Cross was built in the 1950s to supply water from the aquifer to the growing population in the towns of Halton, Tring and Wendover. Despite enhanced levels of water extraction when groundwater levels remained high the road through The Vale to Chesham, which has always lacked effective drainage was frequently impassable in winter months, and remains prone to flooding today.
A stone obelisk on the boundary between Hawridge and Cholesbury was erected in 1898 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee the year before.
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