Knapps Brook

Image of Knapps Brook in Leagrave, Luton, Bedfordshire

Knapps Brook is a minor tributary of the River Lea in Bedfordshire, England.^[1] The source of the river Lea is on Leagrave Common in Luton.^[2] It forms from a combination of brooks from East End, Houghton Regis and from the Lewsey Estate near the old Lewsey Farm. It joins the River Lea from culverts under the railway embankment and Toddington Road in Leagrave.^[3]

The brook is most easily viewed from footpaths alongside Toddington Road or footpaths running though the nearby Hockwell Ring estate.

Nearby Nappsbury Road in Leagrave takes its name from the former Napps Nursery that occupied the site. The nursery name being a corruption of the brook that runs adjacent to the site.

References

↑ "Knapps Brook, Leagrave Park". freshwaterwatch.thewaterhub.org. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 166 Luton & Hertford (Hitchin & St Albans) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319232095.
↑ "Lea River". www.cofeq.free-online.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2016.

River Lea / Lee, England

Counties	Bedfordshire Essex Hertfordshire Greater London

Mouth	River Thames

Settlements	Leagrave Luton Harpenden Wheathampstead Welwyn Garden City Hertford Ware Stanstead Abbotts Hoddesdon Broxbourne Cheshunt Waltham Abbey Ponders End Edmonton Tottenham Upper Clapton Hackney Wick Stratford Bromley-by-Bow Canning Town Leamouth

Major tributaries	River Ash River Beane River Ching River Mimram River Moselle River Rib River Stort

Minor tributaries	Bayford Brook Broxbourne Mill Stream Cobbins Brook Coppermill Stream Cornmill Stream Cuffley Brook Dagenham Brook Hackney Brook Houghton Brook Knapps Brook Lewsey Brook Millhead Stream Pymmes Brook Rags Brook River Lynch Salmons Brook Small River Lea Spital Brook Theobalds Brook Turkey Brook Turnford Brook Woollens Brook Wormleybury Brook

Coordinates: 51°54′30″N 0°27′37″W / 51.90845°N 0.46034°W / 51.90845; -0.46034

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