Cobbins Brook
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Cobbins Brook is a minor tributary of the River Lea. It forms to the north of Epping, Essex and flows past Epping Upland, Waltham Abbey until it joins the River Lee Flood Relief Channel below the M25 motorway near Rammey Marsh.
Queen Boudica
A local legend claims Boudica's rebellion against the Romans ended in the Waltham Abbey neighbourhood when she poisoned herself with hemlock gathered from the banks of Cobbins Brook.[1] That this conflicts with recorded history does not disturb local insistence on the tale.
Location
- Location map: 51°40’47"N, 0°-0’36"W
Outside links
- A History of the County of - Volume 5 pp 151-162: Waltham Holy Cross: Introduction (Victoria County History)