Hi
Secondly, this is an extract from an article in "The Rickmansworth Historian" No4 Autumn 1942 Pages 68-70 (Authors Messrs King & Prime)
Mr King (part describing Rickmansworth pubs) "After that, of course, there's the Victoria Hotel. Coming down' the other way, there are none along the bottom until you get to the Fox and Hounds, that I used to' keep, or at least, that kept me for a few years, and I came out of that to where I live now. Then there's the Western, and then going down to Mill End, comes the Halfway House, and then the Red Lion, that was done away with years ago, at the same time as all those others, and the Spotted Dog, that was shut down at the same time. Do you know where that butchers shop is, just in Mill End? Well, next to that are two or three very old cottages, and then there was the Spotted Dog. The house is there now, but I expect it will have to come down when they widen the road. Then next there's the Vine, and then next to the fried-fish shop, where the iron-monger's used to be, there was another one. I can't recall its name now, but I know there was one there. Then the Five' Horseshoes was done away with. It stood just a little further down, right opposite where the baker's shop is, and then there was the Plough. That's been closed a good many years, too. It stood nearly opposite the laundry. It's got a stone step in front, and you used to have to step up two steps to get into the pub. It's a private 'house now, and a greengrocer has the yard at the side. After that there's only the Whip and Collar, until you get to the Golden Cross at Maple Cross, and that's all.
One I forgot to mention was the Tree at Mill End. My grandfather once kept that .. "
However
1851 Kelly's Whip & Collar Mr Worrell
AND now it get's difficult
Hannah Pratt "Maple Cross"
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"Thomas Holt "Cross" Mill End"
which implies a pub was between the Whip&Collar and MapleCross
and that could be Golden Cross.
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I wonder if the old row of cottages just before Drayton Ford (going west from W&Collar) was called GoldenCross?
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Note answer = "Dell Hall"
Keep at it!
Ray