The Plough

The Plough was a pub next to Elstree crossroads.

Elstree Village once boasted around seven pubs in the main street.

The Plough was called The Swan in the mid 17th Century and acquired by Thomas Clutterbuck, a brewer of Stanmore, just before 1816.

The present building dates from 1830/40 and in the 1930s, when under contract at the film studios, Alfred Hitchcock was a regular patron.

Elstree was a popular stop over along Watling Street on journeys to and from London. A victualler’s billing of 1756 stated that the White Horse had two beds and five horses, the Plough one bed and one horse and the Green Dragon one bed and no horses. By 1833 four major stage coaches called at Elstree daily.

In the early twenty first century, the Plough became a restaurant rather than a pub.

Main source:	Elstree & Borehamwood Museum
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Georgina Dorsett ( nee Peters ) Added: 21 Jan 2018 13:45 GMT IP: 90.199.231.0 2:1:37093	Post by Georgina Dorsett ( nee Peters ): Thrift Farm My parents moved to 1 Thrift Farm lane Borehamwood in 1947 from London, the farm was next to their house, it was a dirt track leading to the house. In front of our house was a cornfield we often had pigs come in our front garden and i would walk to the farm to see the animals particularly the sheep. They built a tarmac road when Holmshill school was built, and we no longer had a wonderful view of lovely cornfields was such a shame.
Scott Hatton Added: 19 Dec 2017 20:11 GMT IP: 217.63.194.106 2:2:37093	Post by Scott Hatton: 12 Wansford Park, WD6 We moved to 12 Wansford Park during August 1960, moving out during 1967. My parents had managed to wangle themselves into a house in London W10 which was due to be demolished by the local council. Thus the council moved them into a much better place (inside toilet!) opposite Tempsford Green in Borehamwood.
John Dye Added: 1 Dec 2017 14:50 GMT IP: 86.131.134.236 2:3:37093	Post by John Dye: Cool Oak Lane, NW9 I lived at Queensbury Road, Kingsbury during World War II and used to play regularly along the edge of the Welsh Harp. About halfway along Cool Oak Lane on the south side was a pond we used to call Froggy Pond. It was the only place I ever saw a water scorpion, Nepa cinerea. At the end of the war, all the street air raid shelters were knocked down and the rubble was piled up on the ground south of the Cool Oak Lane bridge, on the Hendon side. I remember that this heap of rubble became infested with rats and I used to watch them from the bridge. I was told that an old house on the south side of Cool Oak Lane (Woodfield House?) was once owned by the wife of Horatio Nelson. I think it later became the nurseries for plants grown for the Hendon parks.
Lesley carlton Added: 26 Nov 2017 22:52 GMT IP: 81.96.23.80 2:4:37093	Post by Lesley carlton: Embry Drive, HA7 I use to live in embry drive when it was an RAF station with my family and I went to Belmont school.cm
John Morton Added: 17 Nov 2017 14:36 GMT IP: 217.63.194.106 2:5:37093	Post by John Morton: Manor Way, WD6 I remember the following shops along Manor Way: Martins, Bishop’s, the Co Op and Dewhurst.
Ron Added: 24 Sep 2017 22:22 GMT IP: 92.6.6.10 2:6:37093	Post by Ron: Colindale The leather business and ’Leatherville’ was set up by Arthur Garstin, not GARSTON. :o)
Martina Added: 13 Jul 2017 21:22 GMT IP: 146.198.174.6 2:7:37093	Post by Martina: Schweppes Factory The site is now a car shop and Angels Fancy Dress shop and various bread factories are there.
Scott Hatton Added: 30 Jun 2017 15:58 GMT IP: 217.63.200.50 2:8:37093	Post by Scott Hatton: Borehamwood I was brought up in Borehamwood - first in Wansford Park and later in Theobald Street.
Irene Smith Added: 30 Jun 2017 15:46 GMT IP: 217.63.200.50 2:9:37093	Post by Irene Smith: Keystone Passage, WD6 My mother worked at Keystones in the 1940 before she was married. She later worked at home which a lot of people did. You would often see people walking around Boreham Wood with boxes filled with piecework for the factory.
LDNnews Added: 30 Nov 2019 16:27 GMT IP: 3:10:37093	Post by LDNnews: Aldwych Abbots Road follows a footpath which stretched from Bunns Lane to Orange Hill House. Abbots Road follows a footpath which stretched from Bunns Lane to Orange Hill House. https://www.theundergroundmap.com/article.html?id=10488
LDNnews Added: 25 Nov 2019 16:27 GMT IP: 3:11:37093	Post by LDNnews: Aldwych Totteridge Fields is managed by the London Wildlife Trust as a nature reserve, in partnership with Barnet Council. Totteridge Fields is managed by the London Wildlife Trust as a nature reserve, in partnership with Barnet Council. https://www.theundergroundmap.com/article.html?id=51064

	VIEW THE ELSTREE AREA IN THE 1750s The 1750 Rocque map is bounded by Sudbury (NW), Snaresbrook (NE), Eltham (SE) and Hampton Court (SW). Outside these bounds, the 1750 map does not display.
	VIEW THE ELSTREE AREA IN THE 1800s The 1800 mapping is bounded by Stanmore (NW), Woodford (NE), Bromley (SE) and Hampton Court (SW). Outside these bounds, the 1800 map does not display.
	VIEW THE ELSTREE AREA IN THE 1830s The 1830 mapping is bounded by West Hampstead (NW), Hackney (NE), Greenwich (SE) and Chelsea (SW). Outside these bounds, the 1830 map does not display.
	VIEW THE ELSTREE AREA IN THE 1860s The 1860 mapping is bounded by Brent Cross (NW), Stratford (NE), Greenwich (SE) and Hammermith (SW). Outside these bounds, the 1860 map does not display.
	VIEW THE ELSTREE AREA IN THE 1900s The 1900 mapping covers all of the London area.

Elstree

Elstree is a village in the southermost area of Hertfordshire situated on Watling Street.

Though since boundary changes fully in Hertfordshire, until the 1990s it was half in Hertfordshire and half in Middlesex (now Greater London).

It is most famous for giving its name to the Elstree Film Studios in nearby Borehamwood where a number of famous British films were made.

Elstree has an airfield, with a paved runway, suitable for light aircraft use. The nearest railway station is Elstree & Borehamwood.