It left the main line at Parkend and in places shadowed the Milkwall branch tramroad.

[3] The production of lime, which during the 19th century was used as flux in local ironworks as well as for farming and building, also took place in Milkwall.

There were engineering works at Milkwall belonging in 1889 to Tom Morgan which continued casting metals after World War I.

[3] A colour (pigment) factory was started at Milkwall in 1926 – it employed 7 people in 1965, when in addition to processing oxides mined elsewhere it ground coal for use in the paper and fibreboard industries and in drills.

[4] A wooden village hall was built after World War I and a recreation ground was laid out in the mid-1930s.