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 from the source in
Titsey parish, Surrey,
grid reference TQ 420 551, about 350 metres north of
Clacket Lane motorway services, and flowing eastward through the Wealden clay to join the River Medway near Penshurst, Kent, grid reference TQ 537 434. The section from its source to where the Gibbs Brook joins it is also known as the Broadmead Water. 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").