Bow Back Rivers
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Bow Back Rivers are part of the River Lee in London and form a complex system of waterways. Improvements were carried out in 1930 by the River Lee (Flood Relief) Act.
Bow Creek, and the connecting waterways, Prescott Channel, Channelsea River, Abbey Creek, Three Mills River, City Mill River and Waterworks River are all tidal but St. Thomas Creek and the Old River Lee are not (being maintained at the same level as the Limehouse Cut).
Also in the area and crossing the Back Rivers by a series of bridges is the Northern Outfall Sewer. It and Abbey Mill Pumping Station were, both designed by Joseph Bazalgette in the 1860s. Today the route of the embankment that encloses the sewer from Bow to Beckton is followed by a public footpath; The Greenway.
