How Local Communities Are Taking Back Their Rivers

A story of people power on the Pymmes Brook Trail in London

The Pymmes Brook, Arnos Park, London. Photo by author.

Stretching over 10 miles from the leafy suburbs of Barnet to the inner-city sprawl of Edmonton, the Pymmes Brook flows though picturesque parks, past ancient woodland, behind council housing estates and under some of the city’s biggest motorway junctions. It traverses three…