Dagenham Brook

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Dagenham Brook at Leyton

Dagenham Brook is located in the London Borough of Waltham Forest and is a minor tributary of the River Lea . It is the traditional eastern limit of the Leyton Marshes.^[1]

Course

The brook flows from the River Lee Flood Relief Channel, close to Forest Road (near Blackhorse Road), past Walthamstow Reservoirs, to cross a mainly urban area. It passes under Lea Bridge Road and skirts around the boundary of Leyton to culminate at a pumping station close to New Spitalfields Market.

Ecology

The brook has been designated a site of Local Nature Conservation Importance. Different species of birds that can be spotted here include the kingfisher, and mammals such as fox and rabbit can also be seen.

References

↑ 'Leyton: Economic history, marshes and forests', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6. 1973. pp. 197–205.

External links

Pictures of Dagenham Brook

v t e River Lea / Lee, England

Counties	Bedfordshire Essex Hertfordshire Greater London

Mouth	River Thames

Settlements	Luton Harpenden Wheathampstead Welwyn Garden City Hertford Ware Stanstead Abbotts Hoddesdon Broxbourne Cheshunt Waltham Abbey Ponders End Edmonton Tottenham Upper Clapton Hackney Wick Stratford Bromley-by-Bow Canning Town Leamouth

Major tributaries	River Ash River Beane River Ching River Mimram River Moselle River Rib River Stort

Minor tributaries	Bayford Brook Broxbourne Mill Stream Cobbins Brook Coppermill Stream Cornmill Stream Cuffley Brook Dagenham Brook Hackney Brook Millhead Stream Pymmes Brook Rags Brook River Lynch Salmons Brook Small River Lea Spital Brook Theobalds Brook Turkey Brook Turnford Brook Woollens Brook Wormleybury Brook

Coordinates: 51°33′42″N 0°01′18″W / 51.5617°N 0.02174°W / 51.5617; -0.02174

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