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River Stort
The quiet Stort runs past watermills and country houses through some of the prettiest landscape in southern England.
The river is a tributary of the Lee, and extends navigation to Bishops Stortford. But the two waterways are very different.
The rural Stort's gentle, winding course has remained unaltered by the passage of time, unlike the Lee which has been straightened and shortened by generations of engineers. Just 14 miles long, the navigation is engagingly beautiful, its mills and maltings a million miles away from the sprawl of Greater London.
Bishop's Stortford is the birthplace of Cecil Rhodes, who colonised Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Harlow was developed after World War II as an overspill for London.
