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General
Croxley Green has a long history with evidence that man was living in the area 15,000 years ago. Croxley Green’s written history probably begins with Croc, a moneyer to King Canute. Croc is mentioned in the capacity of moneyer in the Domesday Book.
Cherry Fairs used to be held on Croxley Green on the Sunday when the cherry crop was being picked but by 1922 these had stopped.
John Dickinson, who devised and patented paper making machinery, opened Croxley Mill on Common Moor beside the Grand Union Canal in 1880. In 1887 John Dickinson and Co. Ltd. had fifty cottages built to house its workers at Dickinson Square.
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Local House
At an unspecified house in Croxley Green workmen arrived one morning to continue fitting a new bathroom only to find their tools strewn across the lawn. The tools looked as if they had been thrown there but all the doors were firmly locked so no one could have gained access to them. Later glasses, crockery and cutlery would throw themselves from cupboards and smash against the walls; they had a poltergeist. Footsteps were often heard overhead but there was no one there to have made them. At one point a lady who was living at the house was convinced that she saw a figure follow here down the stairs.
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Scotsbridge Mill
In the late 1980s Scotsbridge Mill, a former paper mill was being converted into a Beefeater restaurant. This seems to have troubled the spirits who occupied the mill and objects started appearing and disappearing whilst ghostly moans and groans were heard. In the grounds a headless horseman was seen and eventually it became too much and the plans were dropped. One local man recalled that as a child he was playing with some friends around the empty mill. It was dusk when there suddenly appeared a headless horseman who galloped past leaving no hoof prints. The ghosts did lose out in the end as the mill was eventually converted into a restaurant.
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