The confluence of road and river also explains why an early underground line was routed through Putney, running north-south from Earl's Court to Wimbledon, as well as a branch of the London and South Western Railway (later the Southern Railway) from Windsor to Waterloo, with a station strategically pitched at the upper end of the high street.
"The land is very valuable because it is at the confluence of all the major roads in the county," he said.
Looking around at the confluence of water, rail and road --the bridges that carry the Garden State Parkway and Route 9 are practically overhead -- the professor decided that it would make a perfect site for a large-scale experiment in recycling dredge spoils.
You can get the full Ladakh time-travel effect by waking up in a place like Nimoo, a whitewashed village perched along an ancient trade road below the confluence of the Zanskar and Indus rivers.
A port on the Niger River, it lies at the intersection of roads from Bamako (Mali), Kankan, and Dinguiraye and is 5 miles (8 km) north of the confluence of the Tinkisso River with the Niger.
The city is 203 miles (326 km) southeast of Paris by road and lies at the confluence of the Ouche and Suzon rivers.
The road once again enters forest as it follows the Cann River east branch to its upper end at the confluence of Fiddlers Green Creek and Flat Rock Creek, the latter of which the road follows through Coopracambra National Park to the New South Wales border.
Images posted on his blog, Tibetan Plateau, show huge open-pit mines, a processing plant at the confluence of two major rivers, and mountainsides marred by webs of dirt roads.
On the road to Casa Gaspar, a casual restaurant near the confluence of the ocean and the Guadalquivir River a few weeks ago, a heady aroma that resembled chamomile enveloped our group through the open windows of our car.
