Norbury Brook

The brook reappears in Thornton Heath Recreation Ground, running along the western boundary of the park in a deep concrete channel.

It then continues behind several private houses in between before reaching Norbury Park where, once again, it is hidden behind a tall fence.

The brook continues west, to form the boundary between Norbury and Streatham on London Road at Hermitage Bridge, where it is one of the few rivers remaining overground in the area.

Besley and Leverson Streets descend to the valley of the Graveney and Fallsbrook Road, possibly following course of stream.

Up to the 1970s, a house on Streatham Vale near junction with Farmhouse Road had, in the front garden, a badly eroded Roman pillar (milestone?)