page_title: River Brent
section_title: From Barnet to Brent Cross
hierarchical_section_title: River Brent / River's course / From Barnet to Brent Cross
caption_attribution_description: English: Origin of the River Brent at the junction of the Dollis and Mutton Brooks, Temple Fortune, Barnet, London
context_page_description: The River Brent is a river in west and northwest London, England, and a tributary of the River Thames. 17.9 miles in length, it rises in the Borough of Barnet and flows in a generally south-west direction before joining the Tideway stretch of the Thames at Brentford.
context_section_description: The River Brent starts as the junction of Dollis Brook and Mutton Brook close to Bridge Lane in Hendon, in the London Borough of Barnet.
  Its main tributary is Dollis Brook, around 6 miles (10 km) long, which rises in Moat Mount Open Space, Mill Hill, and flows eastward through fields and open space to King George V Playing Fields in Totteridge. It then turns south and passes between Totteridge and Whetstone. A tributary, Folly Brook, meets the Dollis not far from Woodside Park tube station. The Dollis then flows through Church End, Finchley, to Hendon.
  Mutton Brook rises in Cherry Tree Wood, East Finchley. It flows westward, underground, until it comes to the surface shortly after The Bishop's Avenue, and then flows through parks next to Lyttelton Road, Falloden Way and North Circular Road to meet the Dollis.
  A small stream called Decoy Brook rises in Turner's Wood in Hampstead Garden Suburb and runs through Temple Fortune to join the Brent at Riverside Drive in Hendon. Another, Clitterhouse Stream, rises at two locations on the western slopes of Hampstead Heath. One brook feeds the Leg of Mutton Pond on West Heath, and the lower duck pond of Golders Hill Park.  On the bank of the stream by Leg of Mutton Pond lies the site of a stone age encampment, which was excavated by the Hendon and District Archaeological Society in the 1970s.  Another brook feeds the upper duck pond in Golders Hill Park and then flows to merge with the other branch at the lower duck pond.  From Golders Hill Park the stream flows underground approximately in parallel with Dunstan Road to Childs Hill Park.  At Granville Road, at the south end of the park, a laundry industry once used the clean water of the stream as did a nursery industry, now all disappeared.  From Granville Road the stream flows underground to emerge at Clitterhouse Playing Fields and joins the Brent at Brent Cross shopping centre.
  The River Brent flows alongside the A406 North Circular Road through Brent Park and then under the Northern line to Brent Cross and the Brent Reservoir, where it is joined by another tributary, the Silk Stream. There are several feeders to the Silk Stream including Burnt Oak Brook, Edgware Brook and Deans Brook.
caption: The origin of the River Brent in Hendon with Dollis Brook on the left and Mutton Brook on the right.
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