River Brent

The Brent is a river within Greater London which is a tributary of the River Thames. It is 17.9 miles (29 km) long, running north-east to south-west, and it joins the Thames on the Tideway at Brentford, Hounslow. A letter from the Bishop of London in AD 705 suggesting a meeting at Breguntford now Brentford, is the earliest record of this place and probably therefore that of the river, suggesting that the name may be related to the Celtic *brigant- meaning "high" or "elevated" perhaps linked to the goddess Brigantia The River Thames can first be identified as a discrete drainage line as early as 58 million years ago, in the Thanetian stage of the late Palaeocene epoch. Until around half a million years ago, the Thames flowed on its...