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I have indeed walked across the low cobbled bridge several times without realising it's the outflow of the Pymmes Brook. Every day's a school day. Cheers DG.
Now it's my turn to retrospectively welcome DG to my neck of the woods. Cup of tea unlikely as I'm out most of the time.

Broomfield Park is indeed a gem, despite Broomfield House ruins, and there's a community-run cafe, boating lake, mini-gym, and an annual festival held in September. It's a pity it came in the negatively-described section of the walk.

Just north of the park is the 'Lakes' estate where I live, with its collection of ornate stained-glass windowed porches, You must have passed the wonderful Baskerville's tea house and the newer Starfish coffee shop on Aldermans Hill opposite the park, and Palmers Green station where Annita Correia runs a very friendly and popular refreshment kiosk down in platform 1.

Sorry for the long paen to Palmers Green but it's worth another look!
A walk I've done with friends a couple of times is to link up a load of parks and green spaces in Enfield, starting at Arnos Grove tube station, through Arnos Park alongside Pymmes Brook (Arnos Park is pretty nice too), crossing to Broomfield Park,(toilet stop at my house!), Conway Rec (both Broomfield Park and Conway Rec have active Friends groups),, Southgate Green, Walker cricket ground, Meadway, Grovelands Park, Winchmore Hill Green, cut throughs alongside the railway to Gramge Park station, Town Park, Gentlemans Row, and finishing at the delightfully-situated Crown and Horseshoes pub by the New River in Enfield town. Long but beautiful.
Sorry, model boat, not boating, lake, and ornate stained-glass windowed front doors, not porches
My neck of the woods as well, Stephen sings the praises of the great Broomfield Park. If you'd taken the New River Path between the old Southgate Town Hall (now flats, but still houses the local library, just) and the A 406 you'd have seen where Pymmes Brook passes under the railway and the New River.
gosh, I never realised that it's the Pymmes Brook I'm seeing when I go to IKEA, I thought it was just some flood relief channel allied to the River Lea ... still I guess in many ways that's what the brook has turned into by then
Definitively a tale of two halves, this one!
One again DG does it so we don't have to! Fascinating read all the same, even if not the trudge itself!
I loved visiting the local museum located in Broomfield House in the late 1950s/early 1960s - it had a wonderful scale model of the area in a glass case which as a child looking in always seemed so large. The large greenhouse nearby in Broomfield Park always displayed a fine selection of exotic plants. Delightful.
Hi DG, wanted to 'follow in my footsteps' but link gives error.

dg writes: Oops, missing 'e'.
Fixed now, thanks.

Just to put people off even more, note that the treated output from Deephams Sewage Works flows into the lower reaches of Pymmes Brook! It's olfactory noticable in the Lea after heavy rainfall which exceeds the capacity of the works.
There is a major upgrade going on which according to the Deephams website should meet improved standards by March 2017.
Thanks DG
Dear DG. Exellent article but I would most respectfully point out that they aren't called "the" Salmon's Brook or "the" Pymmes Brook in this part of the world. Just the name, same as other tributaries such as Hounsden Gutter, Leeging Beech Gutter and Saddler's Mill Brook. They are not rivers but humble brooks and gutters.

When I used to go to Broomfield House museum, the highlight was the glass fronted beehive.
Thanks Len - I've edited the two posts to remove a dozen definite articles.










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