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Drone Views of Brightwells Farm, Watford, 12 May 2021

Drone footage in Full HD of the land around Brightwells Farm, situated at the end of Vicarage Road, Watford. This is an update with commentary. Brightwells farm, occasionally referred to historically as Hampermill Farm, sits between Watford and Oxhey; the spur from Vicarage Road, passing through the farm and its buildings, turns into a footpath, once a pedestrian/cyclist thoroughfare (avoiding the circuitous road route into central Watford), through farm fields leading to Hamper Mill House. The house and surrounding mill buildings are beautifully situated with an extremely picturesque metal bridge and clock tower, on the mill building. The footpath then leads out either onto Hampermill Lane or can be followed further on to Sandy Lodge Golf Course. The footage features "the Green Bridge" (also apparently known as the "Pipe Bridge"), crossing the Colne between Brightwells farm and Oxhey Hall, that was part of the old Colne Valley Waterworks railway, with elevated views towards the Eastbury Pumping Station and the former LMS Rickmansworth branch line. The single narrow guage line, which carried coal, chlorine and salt from the LMS mainline to the pumping station, closed in the 1960s, with remnants of the old sidings remaining through to the late seventies. These remnants were cleared around the time Chaffinch Lane bridge, over the Ricky Line, was demolished. I remember the bull-dozers clearing the bridge before demolition. The location of the bridge is marked by the now overgrown ramping that led up to the now long gone span. There appears to be nothing left of the sidings. The Rickmansworth line, which ceased to operate as a passenger service in the 1950s, continued to service the Dickinsons works, located on the Grand Union Canal in Croxley Green, into the 1980s, with a very occasional service. I remember the rare occasions when a train came through was a source of great excitement for us kids living on the Holywell, at that spur end of Vicarage Road. There are also views from the Ebury Way Bridge, that crosses between the Holywell Estate and the Silk Mill Road Electricity Transmission Station, and of and from the fields to the East of the Colne, including some impressive Pylons, a wiley old fox, a quick look at the World War II Pill Box on the East bank of the Colne (with a novel approach to al fresco living), a sweep along the river from the pill box back to the bridge, culminating in an elevated panorama of the area from 400 feet. The panorama includes views of the old 'Scouts Field', which used to be home to the 1st Watford Central Scout Hut (which regrettably burned down in the 1990s - one Sausage Sizzle too many?) and remains home to the Watford and District Rifle Club (where I used to shoot with the 1st Watford Sea Scouts). The field was once a quarry, with some steep 'cliff' edges and a stepped incline from the river to the Vicarage Road farm track. The ground, where the grass is sparse, can yield a selection of fossilised shell remains, but the last time I found one was about 50 years ago!