Cobbins Brook is a minor tributary of the
River Lea
The River Lea ( ) is in the East of England and Greater London. It originates in Bedfordshire, in the Chiltern Hills, and flows southeast through Hertfordshire, along the Essex border and into Greater London, to meet the River Thames at Bow Cr ...
. It forms to the north of
Epping,
Essex
Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...
and flows past
Epping Upland,
Waltham Abbey
Waltham Abbey is a suburban town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, within the London metropolitan area, metropolitan and urban area of London, England, East London, north-east of Charing Cross. It lies on the Greenwich ...
until it joins the
River Lee Flood Relief Channel below the
M25 near
Rammey Marsh.
Queen Boudica
A local legend claims
Boudica
Boudica or Boudicca (, from Brittonic languages, Brythonic * 'victory, win' + * 'having' suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh language, Welsh as , ) was a queen of the Iceni, ancient ...
's rebellion against the
Romans ended in the Waltham Abbey neighbourhood when she poisoned herself with
hemlock gathered from the banks of Cobbins Brook.
Turtle Bunbury-Writer and Historian
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External links
British history onlineCobbins Brook flood alleviation scheme
Retrieved 19 May 2010
References
Rivers of Essex
Tributaries of the River Lea
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Waltham Abbey