Editing River Mole (section)

==River Ember Flood Relief Channel and confluence with the Thames==
[[File:MoleEmber.JPG|right|thumb|alt=Photograph taken from centre of river underneath a wide-arched bridge. View upstream towards a weir in the far distance.|Confluence of the Mole and Ember with the Hampton Court Way crossing in the foreground]]
The River Mole originally flowed into the River Thames at the point where the present Hampton Court bridge now crosses the Thames (approximately 500 m upstream of the present [[confluence]], on the reach above [[Teddington Lock]]).

However, during the early 1930s, when Hampton Court Way and the bridge were built, the River Mole was redirected to flow into the [[River Ember]] and both rivers now enter the Thames in a single widened and straightened channel once occupied only by the [[River Ember]]. There have been further alterations to the courses of these two rivers in a major flood prevention scheme since serious flooding in the area in [[1947 Thames flood|1947]] and [[Great Flood of 1968|1968]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.surreyproperty.com/east-molesey-history.html |title= East Molesey History |author= Broad P |year= 2008 |work= Surrey Towns |publisher= SurreyProperty.com |access-date= 9 February 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110720091828/http://www.surreyproperty.com/east-molesey-history.html |archive-date= 20 July 2011 |url-status= live }}</ref>