The River Eden in West Kent is a tributary of the River Medway. It travels through the Weald of Kent from the border with Surrey, rising south of Caterham and flowing eastward through the Wealden clay to join the River Medway near Penshurst. Its name is a back formation deriving from Edenbridge, the main town through which it flows, and which was originally called in the Old English language "Eadhelmsbrigge" ("Eadhelm's Bridge" in Modern English). Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... The River Medway in England flows for 112 km from Turners Hill, in West Sussex, through Tonbridge, Maidstone and Rochester in Kent, to the River Thames at Sheerness. ... A weald once meant a dense forest, especially the famous great wood once stretching far beyond the ancient counties of Sussex and Kent, England, where this country of smaller woods is still called the Weald. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, one of the Home Counties. ... Edenbridge can refer to either of the following: Edenbridge - a town in the Weald of Kent, England. ... Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ...
Its main tributaries are the Gibbs Brook, Eden Vale Stream, Eden Brook, and the Felbridge Water.
According to the Environmental Change Network (http://www.ecn.ac.uk/), water quality in the Eden is mainly classified as General Quality Assessment (GQA) Class C, although the headwaters near Oxted are Class D. The river receives treated sewage effluent from two Southern Water Services Limited Sewage Treatment Works (STW), serving Edenbridge and Oxted repectively; the stretches receiving these effluents are both subject to EC Urban Water Treatment "Sensitive Waters" investigations. There are other much smaller private sewage treatment works throughout the catchment. The river and its tributaries support coarse fisheries. Average flows at Penshurst range from 3.909 cumecs in January to 0.485 cumecs in July. Oxted is a town in Surrey, situated north-east of East Grinstead and south of Croydon. ...
In a series of author's notes Wisman describes how ''Eden: The Novel'', a work that took seven years, is the direct result of what he learned during his excursions into the unconscious and how the novel's ideas, characters, and images grew out of his insights and visions.
Part of the Eden Project is serious environmental and educational study, aiming to safeguard our planet and prevent mankind destroying benefits provided by nature by showcasing the interdependence of plants and people.
The identity of the latter two rivers have been the subject of endless argument, but if the Garden of Eden had really been near the sources of the Tigris and the Euphrates, then the original narrators in the land of Canaan would have identified it as located generally in the Taurus Mountains.
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