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[[File:Silk Stream in Silkstream Park.jpg|thumb|Silk Stream in Silkstream Park, [[Burnt Oak]]]]
The '''Silk Stream''' is a brook just over {{convert|4|km}} long in the [[London Borough of Barnet]].<ref name=GIGL>{{cite web|url=http://www.gigl.org.uk/igigl/siteDetails.aspx?sID=BaBII05&sType=sinc|title=Silk Stream and Burnt Oak Brook|publisher=Greenspace Information for Greater London|year=2006|access-date=9 September 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224051019/http://www.gigl.org.uk/igigl/siteDetails.aspx?sID=BaBII05&sType=sinc|archive-date=24 December 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> It is one of the major components of the [[Blue Ribbon Network]].<ref>Greater London Authority - [http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/images/maps-diagrams/jpg/map-4c-1.jpg The blue ribbon network] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531064623/http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/images/maps-diagrams/jpg/map-4c-1.jpg |date=31 May 2010 }}</ref>

The Silk Stream is a tributary of the [[River Brent]], which it joins at [[Brent Reservoir]]. It has several tributaries including [[Burnt Oak Brook]], [[Edgware Brook]], the [[Edgwarebury Brook]] and [[Deans Brook]].<ref>[http://middlesexcountycouncil.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=27 Middlesex County Council, Sources of the Silk Stream]</ref> The Silk Stream runs north–south through [[Colindale]] and [[Hendon]]. It gives its name to Silkstream Road, near Burnt Oak station, and the Silk Bridge Retail Park beside where it passes under the A5.

Silk Stream and Burnt Oak Brook are a [[Site of Nature Conservation Interest|Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation]], Grade II.<ref name=GIGL/><ref name=map>{{cite web|url=http://www.gigl.org.uk/igigl/map.aspx|title=iGiGL – helping you find London's parks and wildlife sites|publisher=Greenspace Information for Greater London|year=2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015142729/http://www.gigl.org.uk/igigl/map.aspx|archive-date=15 October 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

The name ''Silk'' is believed to derive from ''sulh'' or ''sulc'', [[Old English]] words for plough or furrow.<ref>Ekwall, E., ''English River Names'', 1928, cited in {{cite book|title=Interpreting Roman London|editor1=Bird, Joanna |editor2=Hassall, Mark |editor3=Sheldon |editor4=Harvey|chapter=In Search of Sulloniacis|first=Harvey|last=Sheldon|year=1996|publisher=Oxbow Books|page=233|isbn=1-900188-02-3}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Nature reserves in Barnet]]

==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=Nature Conservation in Barnet|first=Janet |last =Hewlett|publisher=London Ecology Unit|year=1997|isbn=1-871045-27-4}}

==References==
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