Before we head back towards our final stop, let's take a brief look at the Abbey River again. If you were to follow the footpath ahead, straight across the fields, you would reach Thorpe, the village where the Abbot of Chertsey had his summer residence. If you look upstream, you are looking towards Penton Hook and the section of the river you walked along earlier. Downstream is Chertsey Bridge, where the abbey had two watermills - one for grinding flour for the abbey, the other for the town to use. The mill remained in use until the 1920s.
If you're wondering what you can hear, that is the every present traffic noise from the M3 motorway which was built in the the early 1970s.
