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	History Section - Parks and Open Spaces (Wandle Park)
		The river served as a water supply and a sewer and was blamed for the frequent outbreaks of disease and the high death rate in 19th century Croydon.
		Wandle Park is amongst the oldest public open spaces in Croydon and like many parks of its time resulted from the Industrial Revolution and the awareness of the need for recreation in the increasingly industrial town.
		The Wandle was therefore taken through the park by an entirely separate conduit so that the sudden storms would not have the effect of fouling the water in the lake.
	www.croydononline.org /history/places/parks_and_open_spaces/wandlepark.asp (1116 words)

	Wandle - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The River Wandle is a river in England, approximately 26.7km in length and unusually steep for its size.
		The river has been in use since Roman times and was heavily industrialised in the 17th and 18th century (the industrial revolution) at one point being one of the most polluted rivers of the period.
		Its main claim to literary fame is the appearance of one of its tributaries the River Mole in Winnie the Pooh.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Wandle (198 words)

	River Wandle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The River Wandle is a river in England about 9 miles (14 km) long.
		The names of the river and of Wandsworth are thought to have derived from the Saxon "Wendlesworth" meaning "Wendle's Settlement".
		The river has been well-used since Roman times and was heavily industrialised in the 17th and 18th century (the industrial revolution) at one point being one of the most polluted rivers of the period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Wandle (299 words)

	Trout breed again in London's River Wandle - Telegraph
		But by 1905 the river was described as sage green and sluggish and the last wild trout was caught in the upper reaches in 1934.
		We already knew trout were back in the Wandle: they were put there by the inspiring "Trout in The Classroom" project, in which children tended the fish in their early days before they were released into the river.
		The Sisyphian volunteers of the Wandle Trust, who have campaigned and worked for the recovery of the river, looked at the rock at the bottom of the hill, shrugged collective shoulders and started plans to roll it all the way up again.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/14/eawandle114.xml (727 words)

	Environment: Restoration: Meet the Wandle
		Even at this stage, the river would already have been irrevocably altered from its original bank lines: canalised and re-cut to direct maximum flows to the mill-wheels and bleaching-grounds, and even to provide Lord Nelson's mistress, Emma Hamilton, with a fanciful garden pond that she named the Nile.
		Naturally, where the river was still clean enough, this record number of stair-stepping mill-pools, tails and leats would also have provided excellent habitat for large and fastidious trout, and there's evidence to suggest that the millers saw their fishings as a valuable extra income stream.
		As far back as 1610, when the Wandle's millers thought they saw their livelihood threatened, they successfully fought a plan to pipe away just a tenth of the headsprings to supply the capital with drinking water.
	www.flyfishersrepublic.com /environment/restoration/thewandle (1407 words)

	St Mary the Virgin Merton
		he River Wandle has been looking particularly good in the sun this Summer, as we see the considerable efforts which have gone in to the environment of the river in recent years come to fruition.
		Our beautiful river was once reportedly the hardest worked river of its size in the country, with no fewer than 99 mills on its banks in the nineteenth century producing everything from textiles to snuff.
		The management of the Wandle is one of many examples of the way nature is managed in our towns today and contrasts sharply with and increasingly sanitised and chemical infested countryside, in much of which our wildlife is in decline.
	www.stmarysmerton.org.uk /parishonline/sept2005/wandle.htm (472 words)

	South Of The River
		The River Wandle is a river in England about 9 miles (14 km) long.
		The names of the river and of Wandsworth are thought to have derived from the Saxon "Wendlesworth" meaning "Wendle's Settlement".
		The river has been well-used since Roman times and was heavily industrialised in the 17th and 18th century (the industrial revolution) at one point being one of the most polluted rivers of the period.
	www.geocities.com /colinstrainers/wr.html (533 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In a five yearly report published by the Environment Agency last week, the river achieved a B rating based on year 2000 measurements, which reflects a good quality of water, compared with 1995 when it was given an E grade (poor).
		The Wandle's improvements are echoed throughout the Thames area, where over all water quality is better now than it has ever been.
		The River Wandle flows through Croydon under the Purley Way and appears at Waddon Ponds, also appearing in heavy rainfall as springs and streams all over central and south Croydon, and joins the Thames at Wandsworth.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=17985 (266 words)

	Observer \| How one toxic river became the water of life
		Half a century ago the River Wandle, which runs for nine miles smack through the middle of some of the least prepossessing housing and industrial estates south London has ever tried to hide, was officially declared an open sewer.
		The Wandle was, in the mid-19th century, the most-worked watercourse in the world.
		The worst part of the river was down by Earlsfield, at a camp of travelling people, although on Friday's evidence we should actually be calling them 'people who don't travel at all except to throw dead washing-machines and propane canisters into the newly clean Wandle'.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4978314-102285,00.html (1145 words)

	icSurreyOnline - Wandling by the river (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Wandle rises in South Croydon, fed by springs in the area around the Swan and Sugarloaf public house in Brighton Road, from where it flows north along Southbridge Road.
		The Wandle has driven numerous mills along its course from Croydon to Wandsworth and for much of the 20th century it was a convenient drain for many of the factories that lined its banks.
		The Wandle is now clean enough to drink - much purer, apparently, than the water piped to many of the properties that flank the river - and it supports fish and a myriad of wildlife once again.
	icsurreyonline.icnetwork.co.uk /businessnews/features/tm_objectid=16236425&method=full&siteid=53340&headline=wandling-by-the-river-name_page.html (568 words)

	Rhodri Marsden - timewasting.net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The recent history of the River Wandle is typical of the slow recovery of London’s waterways from a series of open sewers to the kind of sparkling streams that you may even be able to picnic beside without having to grimace every time the wind changes.
		Today the river is a contrast of the picturesque and the still rather grim.
		If you continue along to the basin where the Wandle finally flows into the Thames you’ll find Young’s brewery, where beer has been produced since 1581 and where traditional methods are still used to produce a range of ales and to spread that distinctive but fairly unpleasant smell of hops throughout the Wandsworth one-way-system.
	www.timewasting.net /2005/01/short-piece-about-river-wandle-for.html (499 words)

	Carshalton Ponds are close to one of the 3 sources of the River Wandle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Carshalton Ponds are close to one of the 3 sources of the River Wandle.
		The river flows from beneath Croydon to the Thames at Wandsworth and had numerous water wheels along its journey.
		The flow of the river is maintained throughout the dry seasons by the treated water from Beddington Farm sewage treatment plant.
	surreyhilitewalks.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /hayhilites.htm (211 words)

	London's Lost Trout River Reborn
		Last month brown trout were released into the Wandle for first time in 100 years.
		The Wandle flows through south London, meeting the River Thames at the heart of Europe's largest city.
		By the 20th century the river was all but dead.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/04/0421_030421_londonriver.html (435 words)

	Carshalton
		It was later known as Creshalton, possibly because of all the water cress beds along the banks of the river.
		This part of the river is the Carshalton branch, which rises at Carshalton Ponds.
		This is because it was here that the two branches of the Wandle met before they once again divided into two (creating the island we just passed).
	www.geocities.com /robjan11/Carshalton.html (751 words)

	Local history
		The River Wandle is one of these tributaries which flows north from the foothills of the North Downs to the Thames at Wandsworth.
		Much of the local life focussed on the River Wandle, which provided water power for the many mills that were built along its banks.
		Running close to the Wandle for most of its length (map), mill owners were able to take advantage of this new method of transport.
	briscoe-smith.org.uk /thalia/Local_History.htm (1070 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - Ealing Times (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Water voles are to be reintroduced to the river Wandle more than 40 years after they disappeared from its banks.
		It hopes to be able to start three new colonies along the river in the next two years, which could see the voles migrate to the Croydon area.
		The last recorded sighting of a vole in the river Wandle was in 1962 but wooden and cement cladding, used to support the banks during developments, is blamed for driving the voles out by preventing them from burrowing.
	www.ealingtimes.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=484374 (298 words)

	Wandle and Graveney Rivers Tooting (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wandsworth - 'the village by the Wandle' - evolved on its banks.
		The rapid flow of the River Wandle (124ft in 9 miles)
		The bridge over the river Wandle was one of the first to be built in London.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /tooting/wandle.html (234 words)

	The Commons: Private industry righting an environmental wrong (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The revival of the River Wandle in London from open sewer to trout run is a piece of marvelous environmental news:
		The Wandle has been reborn in one of the most remarkable environmental transformations seen in Britain.
		The old nationalized water industry and the induistries around it treated the river as a public receptacle of waste.
	www.iainmurray.org /FME/archives/000837.html (274 words)

	Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society
		The walk began on the Wandle river terrace gravels at West Croydon, descended to the (now culverted) river Wandle in Pitlake and Old Town, and returned to the river terrace again in the town centre.
		WANDLE PARK: the modern Tramlink, having crossed the railway, follows approximately the line of the 1855 railway to Mitcham Junction and Wimbledon, and forms part of the park boundary.
		Reflecting the Wandle’s earlier importance as (for its length) one of Europe’s most industrialised rivers, with numerous mills, the area remains very industrialised, although the modern industries do not rely on the river at all.
	www.glias.org.uk /news/195news.html (4987 words)

	River Wandle Photo Gallery by John Cooper at pbase.com
		The main stream of the Wandle is over to the left.
		A Heron feeding amongst the rubbish and filth in the River Wandle.
		This old boat is the largest piece of rubbish I have seen in the river.
	www.pbase.com /john_cooper/river_wandle (142 words)

	Wild Trout Trust
		We have agreed a draft programme of PVs on the River Wandle (London), Stiffkey (Norfolk), Dennett (N Ireland) and Willow Brook (Northants).
		River Wandle Report November 2005 Overview of habitat enhancement opportunities on the River Wandle, London Undertaken on behalf of The Wandle Trust by Vaughan Lewis, Windrush AEC Ltd, November
		River Wandle Strategic Habitat Restoration Project (London)The Wandle flows through south London, meeting the River Thames at the heart of Europe's largest city.
	www.wildtrout.org /index.php?searchword=wandle&option=com_search&Itemid= (366 words)

	Environment Agency - River Wandle pollution
		Following the recent devastating fish kill on the River Wandle, which runs through Surrey to south London, officers from the Environment Agency’s fisheries and ecology team went electrofishing today, in order to fully investigate the effects of the pollution incident.
		The officers isolated a 100m length of the river next to Ravensbury Park, Merton, to assess how many fish were still alive after the incident which occurred on Monday 17 September 2007.
		It is known that the spillage has killed a minimum of 2,000 fish along a 5km stretch of the River Wandle, which have been removed with the help of local conservation groups including the National Trust, the Morden Hall Park Angling Society and the Wandle Trust.
	www.environment-agency.gov.uk /news/1863943?lang=_e®ion=&projectstatus=&theme=&subject=&searchfor=&topic=&area=&month= (472 words)

	Pretty Mendelsohn: The Wandle Trail - Announced "Regeneration" Project. Stop Lying NOW. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The wandle Trail is a 13-mile long route follows the River Wandle from its two sourrces in Sutton and Crodoydon, through Merton to where it enters the Thames in Wandsworth.
		Groundwork Merton have announced the commencement of the project to enhance the existing walking and cycling route along the Wandle to andenhance the amenity value of the river and its hinterland'.
		The new Wandle Trail map generated by Groundwork Merton was launched last month, with a fanfare of publicity, associated with its various public art projects.
	prettymendelsohn.blogspot.com /2005/10/wandle-trail-announced-regeneration.html (2001 words)

	Channel 4 - Time Team 2003 - text only
		Today Merton Abbey Mills, on the banks of the River Wandle in south London, is a bustling craft market, which draws its name from the huge, dominating abbey that once stood on the site.
		Even Tony Robinson swam the river and among the finds made beneath the water were a number of fine gold pins used in the printing process.
		However, the river bed is littered with the debris of London life covering hundreds of years.
	www.channel4.com /history/timeteam/2003_merton_t.html (1889 words)

	icCroydon - Skip yard could drain river and ruin Bronze Age site (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A PROPOSED skip yard near Waddon Ponds could drain the River Wandle and destroy the remains of a Bronze Age settlement, a local historian has warned.
		Their case was strengthened this week by local historian Raymond Hague, who said the yard would devastate the local ecology and destroy an area of archaeological value.
		The River Wandle is a tributary of the Thames and runs through some of the most built-up areas of South London.
	iccroydon.icnetwork.co.uk /news/croydon/content_objectid=13345931_method=full_siteid=53340_headline=-Skip-yard-could-drain-river-and-ruin-Bronze-Age-site-name_page.html (636 words)

	The Craig Telescope - The Builders
		The Wandle River shown in the 18th century.
		The reason for the particular siting of the telescope is unknown, but certainly the industrial build up along the River Wandle, a tributary of the Thames, would have made the building of the 'scope much easier.
		Mr William Gravatt was a Fellow of the Royal Society and assistant to Brunel, River Thames tunneller and shipbuilder.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /greg.smyerumsby/craig/builders.html (458 words)

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