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An East London walk along the Gores Brook from Parsloes Park to the River Thames near Barking Riverside. Thanks to my supporters on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/JohnRogers Please subscribe for regular videos: http://bit.ly/1EJjIB8 More info about the project to de-culvert / daylight the Gores Brook in Parsloes Park: Thames 21 Gores Brook Living Landscapes 'In the 1930s, the stretch of the Gores Brook which flowed through Parsloes Park was channelled through a pipe and buried.' https://www.thames21.org.uk/improving-rivers/goresbrook-living-landscapes-uncovering-parsloes-parks-buried-brook/ Story Map https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ed891e1df36d4fc5905b5bb9b7444e95
Our walk starts in Parsloes Park in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (nearest tube: Becontree / Dagenham Heathway). We walk the buried section of the Gores Brook. There are plans to daylight the brook from its culvert, a project by Thames 21 with the support of the Mayor of London. We then follow the Gores Brook above ground as it flows through Goresbrook Park, across Ripple Road, and past Dagenham Asda where the 145 bus terminates. Our riparian adventure then plunges us into a post-industrial landscape created by the ghost of the Ford Motor Works at Dagenham as we walk along Chequers Road, crossing Dagenham Dock Station and passing beneath the A13 road. Turning into Choats Road we once again meet the Gores Brook and follow footpath 47 to the point where the Gores Brook makes its confluence with the Thames at Horse Shoe Corner.
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Maps: 1968 OS Map 'Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland' https://maps.nls.uk/index.html
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