The History of the River Lee
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First trains, then lorries took the remaining bulk cargos away from the navigation. The railways were also responsible for encouraging large housing developments aimed at London's first commuters, to start with in Walthamstow and Leyton, but then further out at places such as Chingford and even Hoddesdon. In 1967, an act of parliament established the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority to develop the areas along the Lee, many of them by now derelict, for recreation and wildlife. Today it is mainly pleasure boats and waterbirds that travel up and down the river in place of the barges carrying grain or coal.
Compared to the industrial and suburban southern half of the Lee, the river takes on a different character north of Hertford, running through fields and countryside past Hatfield House and the Hertfordshire towns of Wheathampste ...
