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Brent | |
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Location | |
Country | England |
Counties | Greater London |
Districts / Boroughs | London Borough of Barnet, London Borough of Brent, London Borough of Ealing, London Borough of Hounslow |
Towns | Hendon, Neasden, Perivale, Greenford, Hanwell |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | London Borough of Barnet, Greater London |
Mouth | River Thames |
• location | Brentford, Greater London |
Length | 29 km (18 mi) |
Discharge | |
• location | Costons Lane, Greenford |
• average | 1.32 m3/s (47 cu ft/s) |
• minimum | 0.19 m3/s (6.7 cu ft/s)3 August 1995 |
• maximum | 42.9 m3/s (1,510 cu ft/s)12 October 1993 |
Discharge | |
• location | Monks Park |
• average | 1.00 m3/s (35 cu ft/s) |
Discharge | |
• location | Brent Cross |
• average | 0.34 m3/s (12 cu ft/s) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Dollis Brook, Decoy Brook, Clitterhouse Brook, Silk Stream, Wealdstone Brook, Gadder brook |
• right | Mutton Brook, Peggy Back's (subterranean) drain |
The River Brent is a river in west and northwest London, England, and a tributary of the River Thames. 17.9 miles (28.8 km) in length, it rises in the Borough of Barnet and flows in a generally south-west direction before joining the Tideway stretch of the Thames at Brentford.[1]