Unknown (at least to me) bit of the old R.Lea
Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:42 pm
As a fully paid up Conservation volunteer with Lee Valley Park, I get to travel up and down the Lee Valley clearing, cutting back, painting, building, litter picking etc. with my fellow volunteers. A week or so ago, we were clearing a space near Cartagena weir for the new LVPAs "Nearly Wild" campsite. This was a piece of ground which has not been used for some time and was full of rubbish. It backs onto the Navigation above Cartagena Lock, and around a lake (part of Cartagena fishery) and has a stretch, of what I can only presume is the Old R.Lea (note different spelling) flowing through it.
On talking to an angler who had been carp fishing on the lake, I asked him who had the fishing rights on this bit of river, and had he any knowledge of what was in it. He said he had never seen anyone fishing it, and did not know what it contained.
Can anyone out there enlighten me? I attach a Google map of the site, although the river is incorrectly labelled "Lee Navigation", which really applies to the canal on the other side of the campsite.
On talking to an angler who had been carp fishing on the lake, I asked him who had the fishing rights on this bit of river, and had he any knowledge of what was in it. He said he had never seen anyone fishing it, and did not know what it contained.
Can anyone out there enlighten me? I attach a Google map of the site, although the river is incorrectly labelled "Lee Navigation", which really applies to the canal on the other side of the campsite.