Quaggy River in Lee Green
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Quaggy River in Lee Green
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 30 Jun 2013
The Quaggy River is a tributary of the Ravensbourne River and this is the view from Lee Green Bridge. The river has been straightened out by engineers in various places over the course of time but the current trend is to reintroduce the meanders in order to lengthen the watercourse and to reduce its gradient. This is a location where it has been straightened. Old Ordnance Survey maps show it going off to the right here, to somewhere near the present-day junction of Lampmead and Lenham Roads, before turning back left again to its current course. It was straightened here during the late Victorian residential expansion of Lee Green.
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Image Location
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51.456574
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0.009043