Beverley Brook

Beverley Brook

Beverley Brook is a minor English urban river about 14.3 km long located in south-west London. It rises at Cuddington Recreation Park in Worcester Park, flows through Motspur Park, New Malden, Wimbledon Common, Richmond Park and Barnes. It then joins the River Thames near Putney Bridge at Barn Elms.

Its basin has a total catchment area of 64 square kilometres. [http://www.lbp.org.uk/02audit_pdfs/22_rivers.pdf]

The name is derived from the former presence in the river of the European Beaver ("Castor fiber"), a species extinct in Britain since the sixteenth century. Fact|date=May 2008

A tributary, the Pyl Brook, flows from Sutton through Lower Morden to join it at Beverley Park in New Malden.

For many years in the twentieth century it was fed by poorly treated sewage from a sewerage works in Green Lane, Worcester Park. Since the introduction of improved treatment methods in 1998 the range of wildlife species in the river has steadily increased.

Both brooks are on the Environment Agency's watch list of rivers susceptible to flooding.

See also

*List of rivers of England

External links

* http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/floodwarning/S07 Environment Agency warnings
* [http://www.royalparks.gov.uk/press/archive/press_release_2.cfm Royal parks press release on the improving water quality of the river]
* [http://www.tfl.gov.uk/streets/walking/walkdetails.asp?id=7 The Beverley Brook waymarked walk]
* [http://www.nwl.ac.uk/ih/nrfa/station_summaries/039/005.html Flow measurements]

River item line|upstream=Stamford Brook (north)
downstream=River Wandle (south)


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