River Mole below Royal Mills weir at Esher
Introduction
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River Mole below Royal Mills weir at Esher
Image: © David Leeming Taken: 7 Jul 1982
Most of the original river's course in this area was bypassed and eventually filled-in after the construction of the dreadful Mole/Ember flood channel in the early 1980s. This short reach of "old river" survived intact except that very much less of the flow of the river now passes over Royal Mills weir. As a result this weirpool has become far more overgrown and more like a lake than a river - current view from the same vantage point is shown here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3672327
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Image Location
Latitude
51.37981
Longitude
-0.375987