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Laburnum Avenue, HORNCHURCH, RM12 4EX

The Chase Nature Reserve was formerly a site used for gravel extraction. It now comprises a mosaic of wildlife habitats ranging from horse grazed pastures to woodland and wetland. See https://www.havering.gov.uk/Pages/ServiceChild/NatureReserves-TheChase.aspx The River Rom, which is crossed a little way ahead, runs through the nature reserve and here is just above its confluence with the Ravensbourne below which the River Rom is known as the Beam River. The Beam flows into the Thames at Dagenham - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Rom for more information. This lane leads off Upper Rainham Road (A125) and passes horse riding facilities and reaches the Millennium Centre for the Reserve.

The Beam River is created by the confluence of the Rom and the Ravensbourne within Image nature reserve. To learn more about this London Wildlife Trust Reserve see http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/Naturereserves/TheChase/tabid/142/Default.aspx This shot was taken looking downstream.

Harrow Lodge Park was formally the Manor of Maylards Green and Wybridge. The original name is derived from the Mayloor family who held the manor in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Wybridge River was a tributary of the Beam River. By 1799 the estate included Wybridge as well as Maylards. In 1849 Maylards Farm consisted of 165 acres and Wybridge Farm 276 acres. Both farms survived until the Elm Park area was developed after the First World War. The park was developed for public use in the 1900s. Some of the land was used for food production during the Second World War and after the War the Council worked to transform the park. A comprehensive plan was prepared in the late 1940s. A disused pit was filled in with waste material, and the boating lake was formed between 1954 and 1956 by damming the River Ravensbourne. A full account can be seen at http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=HVG020 This view is from the far western edge of the park. It looks across to Upper Rainham Road with The Chase Nature Reserve beyond.

In The Chase Local Nature Reserve, just above the bridge for The Chase. This might be still called the Beam River, its name lower down. But this is above the confluence with the Ravensbourne, so let's call it Rom.

The Chase Nature Reserve was formerly a site used for gravel extraction. It now comprises a mosaic of wildlife habitats ranging from horse grazed pastures to woodland and wetland. See https://www.havering.gov.uk/Pages/ServiceChild/NatureReserves-TheChase.aspx The River Rom runs through the nature reserve and here is just above its confluence with the Ravensbourne below which the River Rom is known as the Beam River. The Beam flows into the Thames at Dagenham - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Rom for more information.

The Chase Nature Reserve was formerly a site used for gravel extraction. It now comprises a mosaic of wildlife habitats ranging from horse grazed pastures to woodland and wetland. See https://www.havering.gov.uk/Pages/ServiceChild/NatureReserves-TheChase.aspx The River Rom runs through the nature reserve and here is just above its confluence with the Ravensbourne below which the River Rom is known as the Beam River. The Beam flows into the Thames at Dagenham - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Rom for more information.

The Chase Nature Reserve was formerly a site used for gravel extraction. It now comprises a mosaic of wildlife habitats ranging from horse grazed pastures to woodland and wetland. See https://www.havering.gov.uk/Pages/ServiceChild/NatureReserves-TheChase.aspx The River Rom, just to the right of the path here, runs through the nature reserve and here is just above its confluence with the Ravensbourne below which the River Rom is known as the Beam River. The Beam flows into the Thames at Dagenham - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Rom for more information.

This might be still called the Beam River, its name lower down. But this is above the confluence with the Ravensbourne, so let's call it Rom.