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Coombe Brook

Coordinates: 51°24′53″N 0°14′59″W / 51.41483°N 0.24969°W / 51.41483; -0.24969
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Coombe Brook, flowing through the Malden Golf Course

Coombe Brook is a 1 km (0.62 mi)[1] long stream (brook) in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London, England, that is a tributary to Beverley Brook, itself a tributary of the River Thames. Rising in Malden Golf Course in New Malden, Coombe Brook flows a northeasterly course through the golf course, then into a culvert under the Kingston By-pass section of the A3 road, before finally flowing into the Beverly Brook near Coombe on the boundary of the London Borough of Merton.[2][3]

Historically, Coombe Brook flowed into Beverley Brook at Coombe Bridge, which had existed as early as 1745.[4] In the 1930s, the bridge was demolished and converted into its current state—a box culvert.

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  1. ^ HA16 Rivers and Streams (PDF). Retrieved 22 August 2022. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Public Works Weekly Surveyor 1938, p. 555.
  3. ^ "Borough map" (Map). Kingston upon Thames. Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  4. ^ Rocque, John (1746). An exact survey of the city's of London and Westminster, ye borough of Southwark and the country near ten miles round (Cartographic). [c. 1:12,000]. London: John Rocque. § Plate 9. Retrieved 9 September 2022 – via Yale University Library.

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51°24′53″N 0°14′59″W / 51.41483°N 0.24969°W / 51.41483; -0.24969