Fishers Green is a settlement in the parish of

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 ...

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, England, lying to the north of the main built-up area. It lies on the

flood plain A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of the enclosing valley, and experience flooding during periods of high Discharge (hydrolog ...

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 ...

Description

In the years following

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much of the flood plain was given over to

gravel extraction A gravel pit is an open-pit mine for the extraction of gravel. Gravel pits often lie in river valleys where the water table is high, so they may naturally fill with water to form ponds or Excavation lake, lakes. Gravel pit lakes are typically n ...

. The resulting lakes form part of the River Lee Country Park wetland reserve and the Turnford and Cheshunt Pits a SSSI. The lakes are popular for

angling Angling (from Old English ''angol'', meaning "hook") is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth. The fishing line is usually manipulated with a fishing rod, although rodless te ...

and

sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, Windsurfing, windsurfer, or Kitesurfing, kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (Land sa ...

and are an important wildlife site. Seventy Acres Lake provides the ideal habitat for many species of birds and is the home of the national

bittern Bitterns are birds belonging to the subfamily Botaurinae of the heron family Ardeidae. Bitterns tend to be shorter-necked and more secretive than other members of the family. They were called ''hæferblæte'' and various iterations of ''rared ...

watchpoint. Two watercourses flow through the locality; a natural channel of the River Lea known as the Old River Lea and the River Lee Flood Relief Channel. The Old River Lea is nationally renowned for its

barbel Barbel may refer to: *Barbel (anatomy), a whisker-like organ near the mouth found in some fish (notably catfish, loaches and cyprinids) and turtles *Barbel (fish), a common name for certain species of fish **''Barbus barbus'', a species of cyprini ...

and chub

and is one of only four rivers in the UK where barbel are an indigenous species. In March 2012 an angler landed a chub from the River Lea, equalling the largest recorded from a British river. Incorporated into the Holyfield Lake (Langridge), is the River Lee Flood Relief Channel forming part of a flood management area managed by the

Environment Agency The Environment Agency (EA) is a non-departmental public body, established in 1996 and sponsored by the United Kingdom government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with responsibilities relating to the protection and enha ...

. The Lee Valley Farms and the visitor centre are located at Fishers Green in Stubbins Hall Lane. They are owned and managed by the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority and are open to the public.

Access

Fishers Green is north of Waltham Abbey on the B194 road known as the ''Crooked Mile'' at this point. Access is at Stubbins Hall Lane to the west of the road. Pedestrian and cycle access to the site is by public paths from Cheshunt railway station.Walking routes
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References

External links

Fishers Green Sailing Club
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