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The Roding rises in the western parts of the 

 county, and flows southward to the neighbour- 

 hood of Chipping-Ongar, where it is augmented 

 by the Cripsey Brook, about eight miles long, 

 from the north-west. The Eoding then flows 

 in a circuitous route for fourteen miles, past 

 Kelvedon Hatch, Navestock, Abidge, Loughton, 

 and Chigwell, to Woodford Bridge; and from 

 thence, after a course of thirty-seven miles, 

 through Ilford and Barking to the Thames. 

 Trout are found in its elevated parts, but they 

 are few in number. 



The Bourne Brook, between the villages of 

 Navestock and Havering -atte- Bower, passes, 

 with a winding channel, the town of Eomford, 

 receiving, between Dagenham and Hornchurch 

 Marshes, the small stream called the Horn- 

 church, and then flows into the Thames. The 

 length of the Bourne Brook is only about 

 twelve miles. There is good bottom-fishing in 

 some parts of it; and pike have been occa- 

 sionally taken out of it, of nearly twenty 

 pounds weight. 



The Ingerburn rises near the source of the 

 last stream, and flows southward past Up- 

 minster, into the Thames. There is some 

 common fishing in it. Its course is about 

 twelve miles. 



