Nash Mills

Nash Mills

Coordinates: 51°43′48″N 0°27′04″W / 51.73°N 0.451°W / 51.73; -0.451

Nash Mills
Nash Mill Church of England Primary School original building.jpg
Nash Mills School
Nash Mills is located in Hertfordshire
Nash Mills

 Nash Mills shown within Hertfordshire
OS grid reference TL0505
District Dacorum
Shire county Hertfordshire
Region East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
Dialling code 01442
Police Hertfordshire
Fire Hertfordshire
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
UK Parliament Hemel Hempstead
List of places: UK • England • Hertfordshire
The Nash Mill paper mill seen from the Grand Union Canal

Nash Mills is a civil parish within Hemel Hempstead and Dacorum Borough Council on the northern side of the Grand Union Canal, formerly the River Gade, and in the southernmost corner of Hemel Hempstead. It takes its name from the mill owned by John Dickinson in the 19th century (Nash Mill).

Part of its area was reassigned in the 1980s from Three Rivers District Council & Abbots Langley Civil Parish. The borough council ward extends beyond the parish boundary.

Contents

The Mill

A corn-mill in the area was recorded in the Domesday Book in the 11th century; it subsequently belonged, in the Middle Ages, to the Abbey of St Albans. The mill had been converted to papermaking in the late 18th century[1] and subsequently purchased in 1811 by John Dickinson and George Longman[2]

Nash Mill was renowned for its production of tough thin paper for Samuel Bagster's "Pocket Reference Bible". A major fire in 1813 was a setback, but the insurance enabled redevelopment for large scale production. After an experiment in 1887, fine rag paper was produced on electrically driven machines: a successful innovation at Nash Mill.[3]

In 1989, Nash Mill was sold to the international Sappi Group and continued to make paper until 2006, when it was closed down and sold. Redevelopment plans for housing were publicised in September 2007. By late 2010, the Mill site had been largely cleared, leaving the mill house, Stephenson's Cottage and the war memorial.[2]

Local history

John Dickinson had Nash Mills School built in 1847.[4]

Notable residents

See also

References

  1. ^ History of Hemel Hempstead. Hemel Hempstead: Charter Trustees of Hemel Hempstead. 1981. pp. 103. ISBN 0 9502743 1 3. 
  2. ^ a b "Nash Mills, Hertfordshire". Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd. 2009. http://www.archaeological-services.co.uk/nashmills.html. Retrieved 13 October 2010. 
  3. ^ History of Hemel Hempstead. Hemel Hempstead: Charter Trustees of Hemel Hempstead. 1981. pp. 107. ISBN 0 9502743 1 3. 
  4. ^ "Nash Mills Church of England School". http://www.nashmills.herts.sch.uk/our_school/history.html. Retrieved 13 October 2010. 

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