River Moselle (London)

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The River Moselle or 'Moselle Brook' is a river in North London, flowing mostly through Tottenham towards the Lee Valley. It was originally a tributary of the River Lee, but it now flows into another Lee tributary, Pymmes Brook, which appears to have been extended artificially in parallel with the Lee, possibly as far back as the 17th century.

The river's name bears no direct etymological relationship to the major continental Moselle River. Instead, it derives from 'Mosse-Hill' in Hornsey, the high ground containing one of the river's sources[1] and which also gave its name to the district of Muswell Hill; for a time the river was known as the Moswell.

From: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Moselle_(London)