EPW017535 ENGLAND (1927). New housing at Pinnerhill Farm, Pinner, 1927

Pinner Hill Farm on the left this time. Hillside Road leads straight on to Potter Street which looks freshly concreted and maybe laid as a 'service' road for the new estate down to what is now the roundabout at Northwood Hills.

The straightness of the road from Pinner Green to Northwood Kiln Farm comes from the time when it was built as a Toll Road to Rickmansworth. There was a tollgate at Pinner Green and one at the junction with Ducks Hill Road. The Gate Public House refers to the Toll Gate at this junction. The name Potter Street and Potter Street Hill refer to the 13th Century Pottery kiln close to the dip in Potter Street Hill. That dip 150 years ago was called 'Porridge Pot' - an attribution from the stickiness of the clay in very wet weather. Honeypot Lane is a similar derivation.