Name | Confluence | Average discharge (m³/s)[1] | Source | Length | Tributaries | Catchment | Notes |
Ebbsfleet River | Northfleet 51.4503°N 0.3296°E / 51.4503; 0.3296 (Northfleet) | | Springhead, just S. of the A2 road at Southfleet | 2.4 miles (3.9 km) | | | Approx. 10 miles due west of London Stone at grid reference TQ860786 |
Mardyke | Purfleet 51.4856°N 0.2278°E / 51.4856; 0.2278 (Mardyke) | 0.48 | Holden's Wood between Great Warley and Little Warley[2] | 11 miles (18 km) | | 35 square miles (91 km2) | |
DarentRiver Darent | Dartford 51.4802°N 0.2176°E / 51.4802; 0.2176 (River Darent) | 0.72 | Westerham | 21 miles (34 km) | River Cray | 154 square miles (400 km2)[3] | Tidal reach: Dartford Creek |
IngrebourneRiver Ingrebourne or Ingrebourne | Rainham, London 51.5075°N 0.1733°E / 51.5075; 0.1733 (River Ingrebourne) | 0.33 | Brentwood | 27 miles (43 km) | | | Tidal reach: Rainham Creek |
BeamRiver Beam and/or Rom and Bourne Brook | Dagenham 51.5118°N 0.1587°E / 51.5118; 0.1587 (River Beam) | 0.34 | Stapleford Abbotts Golf Club, Watton's Green | 13 miles (21 km) | The Ravensbourne | | Rom upstream of inflow of Ravensbourne |
RodingRiver Roding | Creekmouth 51.5145°N 0.0987°E / 51.5145; 0.0987 (River Roding) | 1.85 | Molehill Green, near Dunmow | 31 miles (50 km)[4] | Cripsey Brook Cran Brook Alders Brook Seven Kings Water Mayes Brook | 132 square miles (340 km2)[5] | tidal reach: Barking Creek |
Lea00River Lea | Leamouth 51.5071°N 0.0092°E / 51.5071; 0.0092 (River Lea) | 5.48 | Leagrave | 42 miles (68 km) | The Hackney Brook River Moselle Pymmes Brook River Ching Turkey Brook River Stort River Beane River Mimram | 550 square miles (1,400 km2)[5] | tidal reach: Bow Creek |
RavensbourneRiver Ravensbourne or Ravensbourne | Deptford 51.4835°N 0.0185°W / 51.4835; -0.0185 (River Ravensbourne) | 0.43 | Keston | 11 miles (18 km) | Spring Brook River Pool River Quaggy | 69 square miles (180 km2) | tidal reach: Deptford Creek |
NeckingerRiver Neckinger or the Neckinger Channel | Shad Thames 51.5024°N 0.0708°W / 51.5024; -0.0708 (River Neckinger) | | north Southwark | 0.8 miles (1.3 km) (about; longer old catchment drains to other surface and combined water conduits) | | | mainly diverted to surface and combined sewer drains |
WalRiver Walbrook or Walbrook | Walbrook Wharf, just west of Cannon Street railway station. 51.5094°N 0.0928°W / 51.5094; -0.0928 (River Walbrook) | | north walls of City of London (trad.) | 0 miles (0 km) | | | diverted to surface and combined sewer drains |
FleetRiver Fleet or Fleet stream | Bazelgette's Mid and Lower Northern Interceptor Sewers (previously a stream/field ditch ending at Blackfriars, London) 51.5108°N 0.1048°W / 51.5108; -0.1048 (River Fleet) | | Hampstead Heath | 1 mile (1.6 km) (as to connecting lengths of ponds) | Lamb's Conduit, Fagswell Brook | | diverted to surface and combined sewer drains. Was also known as the Holbourne/Holborn |
EffraRiver Effra | Vauxhall 51.4873°N 0.1258°W / 51.4873; -0.1258 (River Effra) | | west and east limits of Gypsy Hill, London | 0 miles (0 km) | | | diverted to surface and combined sewer drains |
TyburnRiver Tyburn, the Tyburn or the Ty Bourne | north and south of Vauxhall Bridge, and small forked mouth around Horseguards Avenue, Westminster (4 mouths) 51.4880°N 0.1287°W / 51.4880; -0.1287 (Tyburn) | | South Hampstead | 0 miles (0 km) | | | diverted to surface and combined sewer drains |
Falconbrook | Battersea 51.4680°N 0.1808°W / 51.4680; -0.1808 (Falconbrook) | | Tooting Graveney Common, Tooting and east end of Poynder's Road, Clapham[6][7] | 0 miles (0 km) | | | diverted to surface and combined sewer drains |
WestbourneRiver Westbourne | Chelsea 51.4850°N 0.1537°W / 51.4850; -0.1537 (River Westbourne) | | Grange Gardens, Hampstead, West Hampstead and two sources in east Willesden (today's Brondesbury Park) | 0 miles (0 km) | Tyburn Brook | | diverted to surface and combined sewer drains |
Counter's Creek | west Chelsea/east Fulham 51.4778°N 0.1794°W / 51.4778; -0.1794 (Counter's Creek) | | Kensal Green | 0 miles (0 km) | | | diverted to surface and combined sewer drains |
WandleRiver Wandle | Wandsworth 51.4629°N 0.1952°W / 51.4629; -0.1952 (River Wandle) | 1.7 | Waddon | 9 miles (14 km) | River Graveney | 78 square miles (200 km2)[5] | |
Beverley Brook | Putney 51.4718°N 0.2229°W / 51.4718; -0.2229 (Beverley Brook) | | Worcester Park | 9 miles (14 km)[5] | Pyl Brook | 25 square miles (65 km2)[5] | |
Stamford Brook | Hammersmith 51.4903°N 0.2341°W / 51.4903; -0.2341 (Stamford Brook) | | Acton | 0 miles (0 km) | | | diverted to surface and combined sewer drains – old tidal mouth: Hammersmith Creek |
Bollo or Bollar Brook | Chiswick 51.4794°N 0.2512°W / 51.4794; -0.2512 (Bollo Brook) | | Acton | 0 miles (0 km) | | | diverted to surface and combined sewer drains |
BrentRiver Brent | Brentford 51.4830°N 0.3000°W / 51.4830; -0.3000 (River Brent) | 1.32 | Barnet | 18 miles (29 km) | Dollis Brook Folly Brook Mutton Brook | 58 square miles (150 km2)[5] | |
Duke of Northumberland's River (west) and (east) | Isleworth 51.4704°N 0.3212°W / 51.4704; -0.3212 (Duke of Northumberland's River) | | River Crane & River Colne | 9.3 miles (15.0 km) (includes eastern 2.5 miles) | | | Artificial distributary of the Colne and Crane |
CraneRiver Crane | Isleworth 51.4654°N 0.3215°W / 51.4654; -0.3215 (River Crane) | 0.54 | Hayes, Hillingdon | 9 miles (14 km) | Yeading Brook | 42 square miles (110 km2)[5] | |
Sudbrook | Petersham 51.4487°N 0.3058°W / 51.4487; -0.3058 (Sudbrook (stream)) | | Dann's Pond, Richmond Park | 2 miles (3.2 km) | Latchmere Stream | | culverted |
Hogsmill River | Kingston upon Thames 51.4093°N 0.3085°W / 51.4093; -0.3085 (Hogsmill River) | 0.98 | Ewell | 6 miles (9.7 km) | Bonesgate Stream | 28 square miles (73 km2) | |
RytheThe Rythe | Thames Ditton 51.3911°N 0.3260°W / 51.3911; -0.3260 (The Rythe) | | north Oxshott | 4.2 miles (6.8 km) | | | |
MoleRiver Mole | Molesey 51.4012°N 0.3393°W / 51.4012; -0.3393 (River Mole) | 5.43 | Rusper | 50 miles (80 km) | Ifield Brook Gatwick Stream Earlswood Brook Pipp Brook The Rye | 198 square miles (510 km2) | |
Longford River | Hampton Court Palace 51.4013°N 0.3383°W / 51.4013; -0.3383 (Longford River) | | River Colne | 12 miles (19 km) | | | Artificial distributary of the Colne |
AshRiver Ash | southwest corner of Sunbury-on-Thames 51.3977°N 0.4173°W / 51.3977; -0.4173 (River Ash) | | River Colne | 6.2 miles (10.0 km)[8] | | | Distributary of the Colne |
WeyRiver Wey (and Caker Stream) | Weybridge 51.3804°N 0.4570°W / 51.3804; -0.4570 (River Wey) | 6.95 | Hartley Mauditt and Upper Farringdon, Hampshire (main, north or west branch); parishes of Fernhurst/Lurgashall in South Downs National Park (south branch) | 53 miles (85 km) | River Ock, Surrey Cranleigh Waters River Tillingbourne Hoe Stream (fed by the Hodge Brook and Stanford Brook) Of south branch: River Slea, Hampshire Dead Water Cooper's Stream | 350 square miles (910 km2) | Source of south branch about 52 miles to/from mouth. |
BourneRiver Bourne, Chertsey | Weybridge 51.3785°N 0.4638°W / 51.3785; -0.4638 (River Bourne) | | Windsor Great Park, Ascot and Swinley Forest | 13.2 miles (21.2 km) | River Bourne, Addlestone | | |
ColneRiver Colne | Staines 51.4329°N 0.5152°W / 51.4329; -0.5152 (River Colne) | 4.05 (before all distributaries) | North Mymms | 36 miles (58 km) | River Pinn River Misbourne River Chess River Gade River Ver | | |
Colne Brook | Hythe End, Wraysbury 51.4379°N 0.5352°W / 51.4379; -0.5352 (Colne Brook) | | River Colne | 9.2 miles (14.8 km) | | | Distributary of the Colne |
CutThe Cut | Bray 51.4991°N 0.6815°W / 51.4991; -0.6815 (The Cut) | | North Ascot | 14 miles (23 km) | Bull Brook, The Bourne | | |
WyeRiver Wye | Bourne End 51.5704°N 0.7111°W / 51.5704; -0.7111 (River Wye) | 1.00 | West Wycombe 51.647802°N 0.812522°W / 51.647802; -0.812522 (River Wye) | 8.7 miles (14.0 km) | Hughenden Stream | | In wet years this river is additionally sourced by an aquifer further up the same valley, extending the river by another mile in length. |
Hamble Brook |
Hambleden Marina 51.5585°N 00.8695°W / 51.5585; -00.8695 (Hamble Brook) |
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LoddonRiver Loddon | Wargrave 51.5017°N 0.8800°W / 51.5017; -0.8800 (River Loddon) | 2.16 | Basingstoke | 28 miles (45 km) | St Patrick's Stream River Broadwater Emm Brook River Blackwater | 400 square miles (1,000 km2) | |
Berry BrookBerry Brook | Hallsmead Ait, near Shiplake 51.4913°N 0.8953°W / 51.4913; -0.8953 (Berry Brook) | | street (Surface Water) drains of South View Avenue, Caversham | 4 miles (6.4 km) | | | |
KennetRiver Kennet | Reading 51.4590°N 0.9495°W / 51.4590; -0.9495 (River Kennet) | 9.75 | Swallowhead spring and others near Silbury Hill | 45 miles (72 km) | Foudry Brook Clayhill Brook River Enborne River Lambourn River Dun River Og | 450 square miles (1,200 km2)[9] | |
PangRiver Pang | Pangbourne 51.4858°N 1.0880°W / 51.4858; -1.0880 (River Pang) | 0.62 | Compton | 14 miles (23 km) | River Bourne, Berkshire River Roden | 66 square miles (170 km2)[10] | |
ThameRiver Thame | Dorchester 51.6348°N 1.1660°W / 51.6348; -1.1660 (River Thame) | 3.90 | Rowsham / Cheddington, Vale of Aylesbury | 40 miles (64 km) | | 310 square miles (800 km2)[11] | |
OckRiver Ock | Abingdon 51.6665°N 1.2838°W / 51.6665; -1.2838 (River Ock) | 1.52 | Cock Well, Little Coxwell | 21 miles (34 km) | Holywell Brook (rising in same parish) Stutfield Brook | | |
CherwellRiver Cherwell | Oxford 51.7421°N 1.2483°W / 51.7421; -1.2483 (River Cherwell) | 7.2 | Hellidon | 40 miles (64 km) | River Ray River Swere | 364 square miles (940 km2)[12] | |
EvenlodeRiver Evenlode | Above King's Lock 51.7849°N 1.3378°W / 51.7849; -1.3378 (River Evenlode) | 3.7 | Moreton-in-Marsh, Oxfordshire | 10 miles (16 km) | River Glyme Rollright Brook | | |
WindrushRiver Windrush | Newbridge 51.7100°N 1.4173°W / 51.7100; -1.4173 (River Windrush) | 3.27 | Taddington, Gloucestershire | 40 miles (64 km) | River Dikler River Eye, Gloucestershire | 140 square miles (360 km2)[13] | |
ColeRiver Cole | Above Buscot Lock 51.6887°N 1.6772°W / 51.6887; -1.6772 (River Cole) | 1.20 | Burderop Park, Hodson, Wiltshire | 17 miles (27 km) | Dorcan Stream (has subsumed original Cole sources) Pennyhooks Brook | | |
LeachRiver Leach | Lechlade 51.6891°N 1.6772°W / 51.6891; -1.6772 (River Leach) | 0.75 | Hampnett, Gloucestershire | 18 miles (29 km) | | | |
Coln00River Coln | Lechlade 51.6881°N 1.7052°W / 51.6881; -1.7052 (River Coln) | 2.06 | Brockhampton, Gloucestershire | 30 miles (48 km) | | | |
RayRiver Ray, Wiltshire | Cricklade 51.6442°N 1.8252°W / 51.6442; -1.8252 (River Ray) | 1.28 | Markham Hill, Wroughton, Wiltshire | 12 miles (19 km) | | | |
KeyRiver Key | Cricklade 51.6424°N 1.8461°W / 51.6424; -1.8461 (River Key) | | West of Battle Lake, Braydon | 6.5 miles (10.5 km) | | | |
ChurnRiver Churn | Cricklade 51.6450°N 1.8533°W / 51.6450; -1.8533 (River Churn) | 0.86 | Seven Springs, Gloucestershire | 16 miles (26 km) | | | |