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#202122;">Physical characteristics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/River_mouth" title="River mouth">Mouth</a></th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal"> • location</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/River_Lea" title="River Lea">River Lea</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>River Ching</b> is an urban river in northeast London, England, which flows southwest from <a href="/wiki/Epping_Forest" title="Epping Forest">Epping Forest</a> through Chingford to join the River Lea. </p> <div class="mw-kartographer-container thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 260px;"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme" style="width: 260px; height: 300px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="260" data-height="300" data-zoom="11" 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southern part of Epping Forest, and flows through woodland and across a ride, coming to the Connaught Water over a fine gravel bed; the flow is not always strong enough to flow continuously to the lake. The Water - which was created by damming the Ching - lies in the parishes of <a href="/wiki/Loughton" title="Loughton">Loughton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Waltham_Abbey_(town)" class="mw-redirect" title="Waltham Abbey (town)">Waltham Abbey</a>. Exiting the lake through a sluice, the small river<sup id="cite_ref-Sce_route_ELWEG_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sce_route_ELWEG-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> curves towards Rangers Road. Early in this stretch it is joined by the <i>Cuckoo Brook</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Sce_route_ELWEG_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sce_route_ELWEG-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from Ludgate Plain, northeast of Sewardstonebury, which also takes in a stream from Chingford Plain. Beyond Rangers Road, the Ching flows south and then southwest, to Chingford Hatch, in a semi-woodland setting, and largely in natural banks but with some concrete embankment.<sup id="cite_ref-LRL_arhv_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LRL_arhv-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Connaught_Water_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4536638.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Connaught_Water_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4536638.jpg/220px-Connaught_Water_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4536638.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Connaught_Water_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4536638.jpg/330px-Connaught_Water_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4536638.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Connaught_Water_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4536638.jpg/440px-Connaught_Water_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4536638.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Connaught Water in Epping Forest, formed by damming the river Ching</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Highams_Park" title="Highams Park">Highams Park</a> area of Chingford, damming of the Ching created a boating lake about two centuries back, on the grounds of a manor house, and as part of a landscape plan by <a href="/wiki/Humphry_Repton" title="Humphry Repton">Humphry Repton</a>. Stones from the old London Bridge were used to form the sides of the lake. The river was re-channelled around the lake to the west in 1850, a course it still follows. After this, the Ching bends to the southwest, passing Hale End, and the former greyhound racing venue, Walhamstow Stadium, then meanders broadly west. Turning northwest behind a hotel and a supermarket, it finally runs west under the North Circular Road in a concrete channel, passes a pumping station and enters the River Lea just north of the <a href="/wiki/Banbury_Reservoir" title="Banbury Reservoir">Banbury Reservoir</a> in South Chingford.<sup id="cite_ref-LRL_arhv_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LRL_arhv-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At this point, the Lea, its diversion line, and the Lee Navigation, form a complex of channels, all running south.<sup id="cite_ref-StMap_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StMap-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EnvirAgency_WB_profile_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EnvirAgency_WB_profile-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The overall length of the course from the Connaught Water to the Lea is 6 miles (9.5 km).<sup id="cite_ref-EnvirAgency_WB_profile_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EnvirAgency_WB_profile-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ching&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The river runs through parts of <a href="/wiki/Chingford" title="Chingford">Chingford</a>, but the name of the river is a <a href="/wiki/Back-formation" title="Back-formation">back-formation</a> from the name of that area, rather than the town being named after the river.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is often marked on maps simply as <i>The Ching</i> and sometimes documented, in whole or in part, as <i>Ching Brook</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-EnvirAgency_WB_profile_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EnvirAgency_WB_profile-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administration">Administration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ching&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Administration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The river lies across multiple local authority boundaries, first forming the border between <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a> and the <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Waltham_Forest" title="London Borough of Waltham Forest">London Borough of Waltham Forest</a>, and later marking the boundary between that Borough and its fellow Borough of <a href="/wiki/Redbridge_London_Borough_Council_elections" title="Redbridge London Borough Council elections">Redbridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LRL_arhv_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LRL_arhv-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pollution">Pollution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=River_Ching&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Pollution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Ching is classified by the Environment Agency as a <i>Heavily Modified Waterbody</i>, and when last studied, while in good condition on chemical standards, was deemed to be only of moderate ecological quality status, with multiple reasons for quality issues identified.<sup id="cite_ref-EnvirAgency_WB_profile_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EnvirAgency_WB_profile-4"><span 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