The mill on the Salary Brook was a fulling mill, which is a step in woollen cloth making, which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate lanolin oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it shrink by friction and pressure. The work delivers a smooth, tightly finished fabric that is insulating and water-repellent. Well-known examples are duffel cloth. 

The trees in Welshwood Park were cut down for pit props during the First World War, 1914-1918. The oak saplings planted to replace those cut down are the Sessile species of the deciduous oak tree. Our homes have been built amongst these trees. 

The two native oak trees in Britain are the Sessile Oak and the English Oak. To distinguish between them, the Sessile Oak leaf has a long stalk, whereas the English Oak leaf has a very short stalk, hidden by two small leaves at the base of the leaf. 

The Welshwood Park Residents Association was established in the early 1970’s when the construction of Woodlands and The Glade was completed. The object of the Association is to preserve or improve the area containing Welshwood Park Road, Woodlands and The Glade for the benefit of its residents. 

The Broadband to Welshwood Park was notoriously slow coming from the telephone exchange in Guildford Road at the bottom of East Hill, in 2014 the Residents Association asked for quotes from several network providers to improve the broadband speed, BT Openreach was chosen being the cheapest and causing the least disruption to the estate with only two cabinets required at the entrance to Welshwood Park Road, the Residents Association collected a subscription from interested residents to pay BT Openreach to install the equipment which was completed in mid-2015.

In 2026, work commenced to install fibre optic cables to those homes that want even faster broadband. 

If you have historical information relating to Welshwood Park or the local area around it and would like to include it in the history of the area, please email: welshwoodparkra@outlook.com