river replacing the concrete ones and their iron fences. The regeneration was completed on 1 October 2002 and cost a reported £1.1million. Since the restoration Chinbrook Meadows has won the Green Flag Award two years in a row. Shortly after the regeneration was completed the Quaggy was given a similar regeneration further downstream within Sutcliffe Park, a mile and a half to the north. Name The name has existed for quite a long while; references to it can be found in numerous works of British fiction in the 19th and 20th centuries, for example in Edith Nesbit's The New Treasure Seekers. The name probably originated from the words quagmire and quaggy. Other names The river has been known by other names. Today Kyd Brook usually refers to the river in its upper reaches in Chislehurst and Farnborough. The place Kidbrooke took its name from the river but is on its lower reaches, where there are two tributaries called Middle Kid Brook and Lower Kid Brook. The place name Chinbrook is derived from "Chin Brook" which was another alternative name for the Quaggy River in that area at the beginning of the twentieth century. Tributaries The River Quaggy itself is a tributary of the River Ravensbourne which in turn flows into the River Thames. The Quaggy also has several small and named tributaries of its own. From source to mouth they are: Main Branch () East Branch () - the two branches rise in Locksbottom, flow north and join together at Petts Wood. Milk Street Ditch (), rises near and is named after Milk Street in Sundridge, then flows east and joins the Quaggy in Sundridge Park Golf Course. Grove Park Ditch (), rises in Lower Marvels Wood, Mottingham, flows west and joins the Quaggy in Chinbrook Meadows. Little Quaggy (), rises in Chislehurst, flows north through Coldharbour and Mottingham, through the lake of The Tarn then flows west and joins the Quaggy near Horn Park Fairy Hall Flow () intermittent stream, when it flows, it rises in Elmstead, flows north through Mottingham, and joins the Little Quaggy near Horn Park Well Hall Stream (), rises in Shooters Hill, flows west through Well Hall then joins the Quaggy in Sutcliffe Park. Lower Kid Brooke (), rises in Well Hall, Eltham and flows southeast splitting into two distributaries before and joining the Quaggy in southern Blackheath. Middle Kid Brooke (), rises in