Talk:Brent Reservoir
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Hello everyone - Just a note the Welsh (or Welche) Harp Inn is first recorded on a Licence Recognition of 1751, it was not originally a Victorian public house! Please do not correct back to Victorian it ain't true folks!!!
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Well, the records appear to indicate it was first called the Harp and Horn. This leads into a discussion of the reservoir naming mythology;
The reservoir takes its informal name from the Welsh Harp, a pub first recorded in 1751 that stood near the site beside the Edgware Road that runs north-west out of London.
The main contention is the name derives, not from the inn, but from the shape of the reservoir which can clearly been seen from the air and indeed on contemporary maps and plans of the reservoir. It is obviously shaped like a welsh harp (although the larger reservoir would have made this more apparent). The fact that the inn was called the Harp and Horn prior to the reservoir is entirely coincidental although it is remotely possible that maps of the area described the 'harp' topography. AtomBoy 00:14, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
