{"id":11694,"date":"2020-12-27T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=11694"},"modified":"2020-12-24T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T14:55:40","slug":"pymmes-tottenham-marsh-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=11694","title":{"rendered":"Pymmes & Tottenham Marsh 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\n\"Pymmes<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Pymmes Brook is a stream in north London which runs from Barnet and joins the River Lea at Tottenham. It got its name from William Pymme<\/strong> who was given land in Edmonton by Edward II in the fourteenth century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Pymmes<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Although it begins from underground springs at Monken Hadley Common in the London Borough of Barnet, these supply relatively little of the water which reaches the River Lea, particularly when the river is in flood, augmented by water runoff from streets and sewage overflows along with the more normal industrial effluent. Because it used often to flood in its lower course, much is now in deep concrete channels, and in some places is culverted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Pymmes<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m no longer sure exactly where I took most of these pictures of the Pymmes Brook, but I think they were just a little after it flowed under the North Circular. I think some may actually be of the Salmons Brook which runs down from Enfield and joins it in Upper Edmonton. This gets its name not from the fish – which were probably once found in it before the area became urban and industrial – but from the 13th century landowner John Salemon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Pymmes<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The river runs more or less parallel to the Lea Navigation just a few yards away across Tottenham Marshes and only finally flows into the Lea close to Ferry Lane in Tottenham Hale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Chalk<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My pictures of the Lea continue south from Chalk Bridge and past Tottenham Marshes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Lea<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the east side are the large Banbury and Lockwood reservoirs, part of a series up the Lea Valley providing water for much of east London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Banbury<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is one of the most picturesque sections of the River Lea, certainly in its lower reaches. I could almost imagine Izaak Walton walking along here in conversation (as Piscator) with his friends Venator and Auceps on May Day holding the discussion of the relative merits of fishing, hunting and fowling as recorded in his ‘The Compleat Angler<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Lea<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More pictures from the Lea in my Flick album River Lea – Lea Navigation 1981-1992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pymmes Brook is a stream in north London which runs from Barnet and joins the River Lea at Tottenham. It got its name from William Pymme who was given land in Edmonton by Edward II in the fourteenth century. Although it begins from underground springs at Monken Hadley Common in the London Borough of … Continue reading Pymmes & Tottenham Marsh 1983<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[3172,3122,3120,3171,17,3342,151,3121,3343],"class_list":["post-11694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-londonphotos","category-my-own-work","tag-edmonton","tag-lea-navigation","tag-lea-valley","tag-lee-navigation","tag-london","tag-pymmes-brook","tag-river-lea","tag-river-lee","tag-tottenham-marsh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11697,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions\/11697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}