Alongside the Dollis Brook in Totteridge Fields

Image: © Marathon Taken: 2 Nov 2016

At Totteridge Fields you could still be in the traditional countryside that was so common before the Second World War, and has been destroyed in so many places since. It is a fine survival of the English pastoral landscape, one of the best in Greater London. The London LOOP passes through Totteridge Fields on its way from High Barnet but turns off west of here and goes on to meet Hendon Wood Lane and then on to Moat Mount Open Space. The Dollis Brook rises at Moat Mount near Arkley, firstly flowing eastwards through the open countryside of Totteridge Fields to Chipping Barnet and then through the suburbs of Barnet to Hendon. Its route can be traced by the thin strip of woodland along the riverbank and ribbon of open land on either side which provides a valuable green corridor. At Hendon the Dollis Brook meets the Mutton Brook and becomes the River Brent which then flows into the Welsh Harp Reservoir and subsequently the River Thames at Brentford. The brook is just to the right in the trees and this looks upstream. The London LOOP and the Dollis Valley Greenwalk are on the other side of the brook here.

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