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While the lower Lea remains somewhat polluted, its upper stretch and tributaries, classified as chalk streams, are a major source of drinking water for London. The extra volume of water has created a broad flood plain with sometimes steep hills on either side.

There are a number of theories about the identity of the Fair Lady, including the idea that it may refer to Matilda, [35] the builder of Bow Bridge and its neighbours, or that it may apply to the River Lea itself. The extensive level of waterborne trade led the historian John Stow, writing in 1603, to describe the Lea as “this pleasant and useful river”.A simpler derivation may well be the Brythonic word cognate with the modern Welsh "Li" pronounced "Lea" which means a flow or a current. For many miles/kilometres below Hertford the river is lined by lakes; to the north these are primarily flooded former gravel pits but in London these are reservoirs: the 13 reservoirs of the Lee Valley Reservoir Chain, fed by the branches of the river known as the River Lee Flood Relief Channel and the River Lee Diversion. Vice Magazine suggested that Wells' story may have been invented to publicise authorities' attempts to evict houseboats from the area that year, in advance of the 2012 Olympic Games. West Ham United was established as the works team of the Thames Ironworks, a shipyard which straddled either side of the Lea at its confluence with the Thames. En el recorrido podremos disfrutar de parajes sosegados y llenos de historia, que marcaron en esplendor y riqueza de la comarca entre los siglos XVI y XVIII.

In the Roman era, Old Ford, as the name suggests, was the ancient, most downstream, crossing point of the River Lea.

Los ingenios hidráulicos, la producción ferrona, los astilleros y la marinería fueron vanguardia europea. This allowed access by 350–tonnes barges to ensure that at least 50% of the material required for construction could be delivered, or removed, by water. In the 1960s and 1970s, changing economic conditions led to a steep decline and deindustrialisation along the Lea. The river is threatened by pollution, with sewage frequently discharged into the river as well as less common events causing major damage, such as an oil leak in 2018, [29] or the toxic runoff from a warehouse fire in 2019. A local legend says that dead bodies were brought out of London at that time via the river for burying in Ware, but there is no evidence for this.

The two rivers are assumed to have been the boundary between the core territory of the Kingdom of the East Saxons and its Middle Saxon Province. Después de la comida, seguiremos la travesía hasta la desembocadura del Lea donde podremos descubrir los antiguos astilleros en las orillas del Lea. In 1216, during the First Barons' War, the future Louis VIII of France besieged Hertford Castle for a month, leading to its surrender. New rhythms inspire new dances and new ideas, and already at the very first bars you realize that this record can be both a joyfully twisted dance floor work out as also beautiful listening experience - with its shifting arpeggios and trippy crescendos. She also narrated and voiced the character Zoe in the full-cast audiobook of cli-fi adventure 'MOOJAG and the Auticode Secret' [31] by N.It seems to be derived from a Celtic (brythonic) root lug-meaning 'bright or light' which is also the derivation of a name for a deity, so the meaning may be 'bright river' or 'river dedicated to the god Lugus'. The name of the River Lea was first recorded in the 9th century, although is believed to be much older. Bargemen born in Ware were given the "freedom of the River Thames" — avoiding the requirement of paying lock dues — as a result of their transport of fresh water and food to London during The Great Plague of 1665–66. The lower Lea was at that time a wide, tidal and unchannelised river, so the construction of the bridge allowed a far greater degree of social and economic integration between Essex on one side, and Middlesex (including the City of London) on the other, than had been possible before.