On the east bank, an old deep lane leads from Titton to the river, still with a cave,well out of flood’s way, for travellers to shelter in. On the west bank, the ground has been so disturbed as to obliterate the path across the flood meadow. In one great flood in 1847, seven feet of silt was deposited throughout the region. Across the meadow lies Lawford, (Lower Ford) and, from there, good roads lead to Astley.
Cloth-house Ford gets its name from the fulling mills on Titton Brook. These mills were important to the cloth trade of the City of Worcester for centuries, certainly as far back as 1302. A boat, known as the Cloth-house Boat, regularly took cloth from the City looms to the fulling mills of Titton. The importance of these mills was so generally recognised that, as 1644, the height of the Great Civil War, army commanders were forbidden to plunder the Titton fulling mills.