Alders Brook

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The Alders Brook is a small tributary of the River Roding. The name is first recorded in 1535, as a brook where alder trees grow. Previously it was the site of a farmstead known as Nakethalle or Nagethalle, literally "naked hall", alluding not to a building but to an exposed or unoccupied enclosure.[1]

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  1. Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9