Salmons Brook facts for kids
Salmons Brook is a minor tributary of the River Lea, located in the London Borough of Enfield.
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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.
Course
The brook rises in Enfield Chase on the borders of the former Enfield Old Park, and flows east 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 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
Flooding
The brook has a history of flooding. The last major incident was in October, 2000 in the Montagu Road area of Edmonton.
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Clarendon Arch is a barrel vaulted tunnel which carries Salmons Brook below the New River at Bush Hill. Originally the brook was spanned by a bridge constructed between 1608 and 1613. 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.
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Topographic map of the Pymmes Brook catchment area, north London
