Cobbins Brook is a minor tributary of the River Lea. It forms to the north of

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and flows past

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Waltham Abbey Waltham Abbey is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, within the metropolitan and urban area of London, England, north-east of Charing Cross. It lies on the Greenwich Meridian, between the River Lea in the west and ...

until it joins the

River Lee Flood Relief Channel The Lee Flood Relief Channel (FRC) is located in the Lea Valley and flows between Ware, Hertfordshire, and Stratford, east London. Work started on the channel in 1947 following major flooding and it was fully operational by 1976. The channel in ...

below the M25 near

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ended in the Waltham Abbey neighbourhood when she poisoned herself with hemlock gathered from the banks of Cobbins Brook.Turtle Bunbury-Writer and Historian
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External links

British history onlineCobbins Brook flood alleviation scheme
Retrieved 19 May 2010

References

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