River Gade

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The River Gade is a river in England. It rises from a spring in the chalk of the Chiltern Hills at Dagnall and flows into the Grand Union Canal at Two Waters in Apsley where the River Bulbourne joins the Gade. Before the canal was built, the river flowed past Kings Langley and Croxley to Rickmansworth were it fed the River Colne and then the River Thames.

The river used to power water mills at Water End, Cassiobury Park and Two Waters as well as powering the paper mills at Apsley and Croxley.

It supported the farming of watercress at Cassiobury Park, Water End, the Water Gardens and Two Rivers until water was diverted from the river in 1947 to supply the growing new town of Hemel Hempstead.

The remains of a Roman villa were found at Gadebridge Park in Hemel Hempstead.