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WATERWAYS SOUND MAP: RIVER LEA

River Lea Enfield Lock. Location: Enfield Lock, north London. Description: Loud rushing of water pouring through a gap in the lock gates, thumping noises as two cars in succession drive over a metal plate in the road, cooing of pigeons. Date: 6 January 2012. Duration: 1:00.

River Lea Brimsdown. Location: Facing the Ponders End industrial estate, Brimsdown, north London. Description: A constant hum from a factory, birdsong, occasional calls of coots, distant banging noises. Date: 6 January 2012. Duration: 1:00.

River Lea Picketts Lock North. Location: Immediately north of Picketts Lock, Lower Edmonton, north London. Description: Loud, constant rushing of water flowing from the Lea into a box-like concrete structure before disappearing underground. Date: 6 January 2012. Duration: 1:00.

River Lea Picketts Lock South. Location: Immediately south of Picketts Lock, Lower Edmonton, north London. Description: Water bubbles out of a buried pipe into the Lea close by, faint electronic beeping sounds from an industrial estate. Date: 6 January 2012. Duration: 1:00.

River Lea Lee Valley Park. Location: By Lee Valley Park, facing the refuse plant off Ash Wharf, north London. Description: Cawing of crows in nearby trees, loud metallic banging sounds from a refuse plant, other industrial noises. Date: 6 January 2012. Duration: 1:00.

Stonebridge Lock. Location: Stonebridge Lock on the River Lea, at Tottenham Marshes, north-east London. Description: Loud, discordant squealing as a barge-owner operates the winding gear on Stonebridge Lock. Voices of onlookers, distant traffic. Date: 18 July 2010. Duration: 1:00.

Summer wind Tottenham Marshes. Location: Tottenham Marshes, north-east London. Description: Grasshoppers rasp in tall grass around, sound of a blustery late afternoon wind, distant traffic. Date: 21 July 2010. Duration: 1:36.

Hackney Marshes. Location: Lea Bridge end of Hackney Marshes. Description: Football players recorded around Sunday lunchtime at Hackney Marshes. Players' cries, metallic banging from a building site, aircraft drone, fizzing of insects in a patch of tall grass nearby. Date: September 2008. Duration: 1:00.

River Lea waste depot. Location: River Lea, a few hundred yards south of Lea Bridge Road. Description: Birdsong, humming and occasional clanging sounds from a waste depot on the other side of the river Lea. Date: 10 April 2010. Duration: 1:15.

Channelsea River Greenway. Location: The Channelsea river under the Greenway bridge, near West Ham. Description: Traffic noise, cooing of pigeons beneath the bridge, constant dripping of water. Date: 6 June 2011. Duration: 1:00.

River Lea Bow Locks. Location: Bow Locks, Bromley-by-Bow, east London. Description: Churning and bubbling of water in one of the Bow Locks, constant traffic, faint bird calls. Date: 29 December 2011. Duration: 1:00.

River Lea Limmo Peninsula. Location: Limmo Peninsula Park, Canning Town, east London. Description: Loud, constant traffic on East India Dock Road, a regular hammering noise from a large building site. Date: 30 November 2011. Duration: 1:00.

Trinity Buoy Wharf. Location: Trinity Buoy Wharf at Leamouth, near East India Dock. Description: Traffic passes over the Lower Lea Crossing, a metallic clinking sound as moored boats shift around at the mouth of the Lea. Date: 8 October 2011. Duration: 0:57.

That concludes the list of recordings for the river Lea.

OTHER WATERWAYS SOUND MAP RIVERS AND CANALS

Rivers Beam and Rom. Beverley Brook. River Brent. Grand Union Canal. River Hogsmill. New River. Pymme's Brook. Rivers Quaggy and Pool. River Ravensbourne. Regent's Canal. River Roding. Silk Stream and Dollis Brook. River Wandle.

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