Salmons Brook
Salmons Brook is a minor tributary of the River Lea, in north-eastern Middlesex.[1]
The river is named ‘Salmons Brook’ on John Rocque's map of 1754. It is probably named from the family of John Salemon of Edmonton mentioned in 1274.[2]
Course
The brook rises to the south of Potters Bar, in Enfield Chase on the borders of the former Enfield Old Park, and flows east close to Trent Park and to Bush Hill where it passes under the New River to enter Edmonton.
Originally the brook was spanned by a bridge constructed between 1608 and 1613, over which the New River flowed. In 1682 the bridge was replaced by an arch named after the then Governor of the New River Company, the Earl of Clarendon. This was commemorated by a carved ornamental keystone with an inscription. The arch was again rebuilt in 1725 and is now a statutory listed Grade II structure.
The brook continues from here south-eastwards to Lower Edmonton. It is culverted under Edmonton Green to emerge at Plevna Road, where it runs alongside the Pymmes Brook Trail. The brook 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] This is an area prone to serious flooding.
Running 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.[4]
Flooding
The brook has a history of flooding. The last major incident was in October, 2000 in the Montagu Road area of Edmonton.[5][6]
Location
- Location map: 51°36’32"N, 0°2’38"W
Outside links
References
- ↑ A History of the County of Middlesex - Volume 5 pp 130-133: Edmonton: Introduction (Victoria County History)
- ↑ Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
- ↑ Saddlers Mill Stream Retrieved 15 October 2009
- ↑ More information about the course of Salmons Brook, with images, can be found in Watson G, 2004-05, Lower Edmonton- Transport and Watercourses - Salmon's Brook, retrieved 7 February 2022.
- ↑ Photographs of floods Retrieved 24 November 2007
- ↑ On flood prevention strategy, see Environment Agency, 2013, Managing flood risk in the lower Lea catchment, today and in the future, especially pages 31 and 33.