Moore Close, Royal-sutton-coldfield

Oliver Cartwright was milling grain at Hill Hook in 1671, making it Sutton's most northerly mill. By 1698 about fourteen squatter households clustered nearby, and the mill itself survived until demolition in 1970.

In April 2025, a grey Nissan van driven by roofer John McDonald struck 62-year-old Suzanne Cherry at Aston Wood Golf Club on nearby Blake Street during a police chase. McDonald was jailed for 13 and a half years.

Birmingham City Council bought the derelict mill-pool land in 1980. Two years later engineers uncovered a buried mill wheel while planning dam-strengthening works, forcing archaeological intervention before construction could proceed.

The Bourne Brook is dammed into a 1.2-hectare mill pool just south of Moore Close, then vanishes into a culvert beneath Hill Hook Road before flowing north to the River Tame at Tamworth.

Before the First World War, Sunday School parties arrived by train at Blake Street to picnic and boat at the mill pool. In 1996, rangers netting the pool for pike found dumped goldfish, sturgeon and koi carp alongside the native stock.