please empty your brain below
No doubt a heroic effort to construct within the new blogger system. Chapeau!

tops | 18.08.20 - 7:37 a.m. | #

Gosh, this is a good piece of work! Thank you.

Liz | 18.08.20 - 7:37 a.m. | #

Bad luck I did find it interesting

Will | 18.08.20 - 7:39 a.m. | #

"...not because I thought you'd find it interesting..."

Never underestimate your readership.

Tim | 18.08.20 - 7:44 a.m. | #

I had never previously heard of Enfield Island Village. A bit of a pretentious name for a housing estate, but never mind..

Malcolm | 18.08.20 - 7:56 a.m. | #

Of interest to me too! But shouldn't the Greater Anglia/DLR/Crossrail graphic also include the Central Line, which passes beneath the Lea between Stratford and Mile End?

Alan S | 18.08.20 - 8:00 a.m. | #

Great HTML work there, lovely.

Kevin | 18.08.20 - 8:02 a.m. | #

Fascinating. But isn't there a footbridge and a disused railway bridge between the East India Dock Road bridge and the DLR crossing?

Steve | 18.08.20 - 8:02 a.m. | #

While the line between Clapton and James St Walthamstow (Overground) does cross both the canal and the river, the main Lea Valley line (Stansted Express) recrosses the canal to end up on the West side before Tottenham Hale station.

ROBERT Butlin | 18.08.20 - 8:09 a.m. | #

Sorry - now I've actually checked a map to make sure my memory is correct, Twelvetrees Crescent seems to be missing, south of Three Mills...

Steve | 18.08.20 - 8:11 a.m. | #

Is it Stratford High Street just High Street?

Running Correspondent | 18.08.20 - 8:25 a.m. | #

You've put in the two roads south of the North Circular Road (Argon Road/Harbert Road) in as River Lea crossing points, but Advent Way and Walthamstow Avenue to the north of it are distinct independent two way thoroughfares rather than mere North Circular slip roads, the 444 couldn't reach Turnpike Lane if Walthamstow Avenue wasn't there.

Still Anon | 18.08.20 - 8:34 a.m. | #

I certainly found if interesting DG, thanks for putting it together. Re Alan S's comment about the Central Line crossing under the river between Stratford and Mile End, the CTRL / HS1 line also does so between Stratford and St Pancras.

IanD | 18.08.20 - 8:34 a.m. | #

Ah, thanks, always good to see reminders of my former neighbourhood. :)

NiC | Homepage | 18.08.20 - 9:22 a.m. | #

This reminds me of the Motorway strip maps at the back of my dad's old 'AA Book of the Road' from the mid-70s. Always found them fascinating!

Mike Newman | Homepage | 18.08.20 - 9:30 a.m. | #

It is the Goblin line, not the Victoria.

Nigel | 18.08.20 - 9:34 a.m. | #

What I'm hearing is that the River Lea is a prime opportunity for a novel river crossing solution!

Perhaps some covid-friendly personalised capsules suspended (or dangled) from some form of pulley system?

As well as providing a robust transport link, this could be a prime tourist revenue generator for the lower Lea valley.

I will write to the mayor at once.

TomH | 18.08.20 - 10:16 a.m. | #

Yet more blogging on topographical topics. Excellent. I am still spending far too much time enjoying the links from yesterday's delights, including those links in people's comments. Layers of London in particular is a wonderful resource/time waster. Thank you for all this delight DG – today's is also a fair substitute for going out and about and, anyway, I am not magnetically drawn to personally visit the Lea Valley for some reason.

Herbof | 18.08.20 - 10:45 a.m. | #

Well that fully deserved a standing ovation on two counts:
1) Construction of a cleaver graphic
2) Enlightening a non-Londoner
I have no difficulty in applauding your efforts at achieving both tasks DG 😉

Kevin Too | 18.08.20 - 11:14 a.m. | #

Fascinating dg. A beautifully presented piece of research, and a test for the readership too!

I do agree with Still Anon regarding the omission of Advent Way (particularly as you've mentioned it more than once in the recent past).

I also sense a bit of mischief in depicting the City Island footbridge downstream of the DLR at East India.

Michael T | 18.08.20 - 11:16 a.m. | #

Found myself totally lost in Enfield Island Village last year trying to follow an unsignposted diversion from the closed towpath on the London Loop. Used to be the small arms factory.

davews | 18.08.20 - 11:20 a.m. | #

Immediately corrects himself: footbridge IS downstream

Michael T | 18.08.20 - 11:21 a.m. | #

Crossrail transits River Lea immediately downstream of Lower Lea Crossing. DLR, although close as the crow flies, is further upstream past footbridge round two sharp bends, although the original proposed route was parallel to LLC.

Scrumpy | 18.08.20 - 12:16 p.m. | #

Nice work- though I'd agree with others that the rail crossings could do with revision. Stansted Express (and other Greater Anglia services to Liverpool Street) cross into the middle and then cross back where they meet Overground, which crosses both sides. But some Greater Anglia services split off just before that and cross all the way, headed for Stratford. Whilst this is all complex, it does represent more bridges than shown

Al__S | 18.08.20 - 1:57 p.m. | #

Updated, thanks.

Some of you still won't like it.
In particular, several of the railways are simplified because to do it 'properly' would be a right mess.

But updated, thanks.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.08.20 - 3:13 p.m. | #

You've sent me back to my old blog to read about our trip up the Lea (from Limehouse via the Hertford Cut iirc) in 2008. We went beyond the M25 boundary (here be dragons!) all the way to Hertford, where we couldn't tie up because they were holding the annual children's crayfishing competition, so we just turned around and came straight back. I wrote about Enfield lock cottage being sadly derelict ... I'm guessing that's no longer the case. I also noted that the lock gates were utter bastards to move and had no handrails.

Sarah | Homepage | 18.08.20 - 4:30 p.m. | #

Wow! I can only imagine the amount of time that must have taken you!

Cornish Cockney | 18.08.20 - 7:20 p.m. | #

I apologetically quibble about two of the connections shown between the North Circular and Ferry Lane. On the left the southern foot crossing (at Stonebridge Lock) goes to the eastern towpath which is in Tottenham Marshes with no access to Walthamstow Wetlands. On the right the northern crossing of the Flood Relief Channel goes from Sandpiper Close to the bit of Tottenham Marshes that's in Waltham Forest, so should also end up in the green bit, not in Walthamstow Wetlands.

Bob L-S | 18.08.20 - 9:07 p.m. | #

Yes I know, and that was better in the previous version, sorry.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.08.20 - 9:20 p.m. | #

South Ordnance Road also crosses south of Smeaton Road and gives access to Swan and Pike Road and Government Row.

Leonard | 18.08.20 - 10:01 p.m. | #

Updated again, thanks.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.08.20 - 10:38 p.m. | #

re. Enfield Island Village. I assume is 'Island' is because it was built on one of the larger patches of land between the various Lea watercourses there. 'Village' seems to be applied to almost any new development these days. The old Royal Small Arms Factory became a museum. I think it has special open days now.

Thanks for the crossings diagram. I live on the Chingford side of the word Girling. We walk the Lea in both directions. Useful to have the restrictions set out in such a clear way: for walking and for transport through the area.

thanks as always to DG, and to your readers as well

g.chingford | 19.08.20 - 2:36 p.m. | #

I still like it: it’s your diagram, so up to you how you draw it. All I am is a commentator.

Robert Butlin | 19.08.20 - 6:32 p.m. | #











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