Salmons Brook

Salmons Brook is located in the London Borough of Enfield and is a minor tributary of the River Lea. ^[1]

Etymology

Salmons Brook is marked thus on Rocque's map of 1754, probably named from the family of John Salemon of Edmonton mentioned in 1274. ^[2]

The brook rises in Enfield Chase on the borders of the former Enfield Old Park, and flows in a west-east direction close to Trent Park and to Bush Hill Park where it passes under the New River to enter Edmonton. The brook is culverted under Edmonton Green to emerge at Plevna Road, where it runs alongside of the Pymmes Brook Trail. It skirts the walled Edmonton Federation Jewish Cemetery and the Tottenham Park Cemetery before flowing under Montagu Road to be joined by the culverted Saddlers Mill Stream ^[3] in an area prone to serious flooding. Running in a westerly direction through wasteland and under the Lea Valley Lines railway it is quickly joined by the outflow of the Deephams Sewage Treatment Works. Flowing through the Eley Industrial Estate and close to the Edmonton Incinerator, the brook can be seen as it passes under the North Circular Road at Angel Road before merging with Pymmes Brook

Saddlers Millstream (right) merges with Salmons Brook below Montagu Road, Edmonton

The brook has a history of flooding. The last major incident was in October, 2000 in the Montagu Road area of Edmonton. ^[4]

↑ British history online Retrieved 16 December 2008
↑ Mills A. D. Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names (2001) p203 ISBN 0-19-860957-4 Retrieved 26 October 2008
↑ Saddlers Mill Stream Retrieved 15 October 2009
↑ Photographs of floods Retrieved 24 November 2007

River Lea / Lee, England

Counties	Bedfordshire Essex Hertfordshire Greater London

Mouth	River Thames

Settlements	Leagrave Luton Harpenden Wheathampstead Welwyn Garden City Hertford Ware Stanstead Abbotts Hoddesdon Broxbourne Cheshunt Waltham Abbey Ponders End Edmonton Tottenham Upper Clapton Hackney Wick Stratford Bromley-by-Bow Canning Town Leamouth

Major tributaries	River Ash River Beane River Ching River Mimram River Moselle River Rib River Stort

Minor tributaries	Bayford Brook Broxbourne Mill Stream Cobbins Brook Coppermill Stream Cornmill Stream Cuffley Brook Dagenham Brook Hackney Brook Houghton Brook Knapps Brook Lewsey Brook Millhead Stream Pymmes Brook Rags Brook River Lynch Salmons Brook Small River Lea Spital Brook Theobalds Brook Turkey Brook Turnford Brook Woollens Brook Wormleybury Brook

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