Turkey Brook

The confluence of Turkey Brook and the River Lee Navigation below Enfield Lock

The brook at Turkey Street, Enfield

Turkey Brook rises near the Fir and Pond Woods nature reserve in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.

Etymology

The brook is named from the hamlet Turkey Street, which is recorded as Tokestreete (1441), Tuckhey strete (1610), Tuckey street (1615), and Turkey street (1805) (probably street of houses, i.e. hamlet, from Middle English strete, associated with a family called Toke or Tokey).

The modern form of the name Turkey, not in use before the 19th century, is no doubt due to folk etymology.^[1]

Watercourse

The brook flows in an easterly direction and is joined by other streams including Cuffley Brook, Cattlegate Brook and the Small River Lea. Along its course it flows through Cuffley, Crews Hill Golf Club, Clay Hill, Whitewebbs Park, Forty Hill and Albany Park before merging with the River Lee Navigation below Enfield Lock.

Ecology

The brook is mostly shallow, fast flowing and clean and can support wildlife. Coarse fish including dace use the brook to spawn.

References

↑ Mills A. D. Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names (2001) p231 ISBN 0-19-860957-4 Retrieved 25 October 2008

External links

"Turkey Brook: a small-scale river study". Retrieved 2012-09-28.

River Lea / Lee, England

Counties	Bedfordshire Essex Hertfordshire Greater London

Mouth	River Thames

Settlements	Leagrave 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 Houghton Brook Knapps Brook Lewsey 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°40′08″N 0°02′06″W / 51.6688°N 0.035°W / 51.6688; -0.035

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