Silk Stream

River in North London, England

The Silk Stream is a brook just over 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) long in the London Borough of Barnet. It is one of the major components of the Blue Ribbon Network.

The Silk Stream is a tributary of the River Brent, which it joins at Brent Reservoir. It has several tributaries including Burnt Oak Brook, Edgware Brook, the Edgwarebury Brook and Deans Brook. The Silk Stream runs north–south through Colindale and Hendon. It gives its name to Silkstream Road, near Burnt Oak station, and the Silk Bridge Retail Park beside where it passes under the A5.

Silk Stream and Burnt Oak Brook are a Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade II.

The name Silk is believed to derive from sulh or sulc, Old English words for plough or furrow.

References

^ "Silk Stream and Burnt Oak Brook". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2006. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
Greater London Authority - The blue ribbon network Archived 31 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine
Middlesex County Council, Sources of the Silk Stream
"iGiGL – helping you find London's parks and wildlife sites". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2006. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012.
Ekwall, E., English River Names, 1928, cited in Sheldon, Harvey (1996). "In Search of Sulloniacis". In Bird, Joanna; Hassall, Mark; Sheldon; Harvey (eds.). Interpreting Roman London. Oxbow Books. p. 233. ISBN 1-900188-02-3.

51°34′47″N 0°14′45″W / 51.57972°N 0.24583°W / 51.57972; -0.24583

v t e Nature reserves in the London Borough of Barnet
Arkley Lane and Pastures Arkley South Fields Arrandene Open Space and Featherstone Hill Ashley Lane Avenue House Grounds Barfield Allotments Nature Park Barnet Countryside Centre Barnet Gate Wood Bell's Hill Burial Ground Belmont Open Space Big Wood and Little Wood Brent Park Brent Reservoir (Welsh Harp) Bruno's Field Burnt Oak Brook Burtonhole Lane and Pasture Cherry Tree Wood Clarefield Park Clay Lane Clitterhouse Recreation Ground College Farm Coppett's Wood and Scrublands Copthall Railway Walk and Copthall Old Common Copthall South Fields Darland's Lake Deans Brook Dollis Brook Drivers Hill East Finchley Cemetery Edgware Way Rough Edgwarebury Brook Edgwarebury Park Folly Brook Friary Park Glebe Lane Pastures Glebelands Local Nature Reserve Golders Hill Park Greenhill Gardens Hadley Green Hampstead Heath Extension Hendon Churchyard Hendon Park and Northern Line Railway Cutting King George's Fields Lakeside Nature Reserve Mill Hill Golf Course Mill Hill Old Railway Nature Reserve Mill Hill Substation Pastures Moat Mount Monken Hadley Common Mutton Brook New Southgate Cemetery North Middlesex Golf Course Ponds Northern Line Embankment, High Barnet Oak Hill Wood Oakleigh Park Rail Cutting Princes Park Pymme's Brook River Brent Rowley Green Common Rowley Lodge Field Scratchwood Silk Stream St Pancras and Islington Cemetery Stoneyfields Park Sulloniacis Pastures Sunny Hill Park The Mill Field Totteridge Common Totteridge Croft Field Totteridge Fields Totteridge Green Turner's Wood Woodridge Nature Reserve

Nature reserves in the London Borough of Barnet

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