The Laverock Wind Gap with a floor elevation slightly greater than 350 feet is located just south of the northeast trending Edge Hill Ridge and links the east oriented Tacony Creek headwaters valley with a west oriented Wissahickon Creek tributary valley (which drains to the Wissahickon Gorge north entrance). Wissahickon Creek drains to the southeast […]
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Route 309 and an abandoned rail line cross Edge Hill Ridge at the Seminary Wind Gap, with Westminster Theological Seminary being located on the wind gap northeast rim. The Seminary Wind Gap is one of three wind gaps cut into the Wissahickon Creek-Tacony Creek drainage divide along the northeast oriented Edge Hill Ridge with the […]
The SEPTA Lansdale line between Glenside and North Hills and Limekiln Pike cross Edge Hill Ridge at the Edge Hill Wind Gap. The Edge Hill Wind Gap is one of three wind gaps cut into the Wissahickon Creek-Tacony Creek drainage divide along the northeast oriented Edge Hill Ridge with the other two wind gaps being […]
The SEPTA Ardsley station is located on the Ardsley Wind Gap floor and Jenkintown Road also crosses the Edge Hill Ridge at the Ardsley Wind Gap. The Ardsley Wind Gap is the deepest of three noticeable wind gaps or notches cut into the Wissahickon Creek-Tacony Creek drainage divide along the northeast oriented Edge Hill Ridge […]
The Meadow Brook Through Valley is an east-northeast oriented valley used by the SEPTA West Trenton line between Jenkintown and Bethayres and links the south oriented Tacony Creek valley at Jenkintown with the deeper south oriented Pennypack Creek valley at Bethayres. Today south oriented Baederwood Creek flows into the the through valley’s west-southwest end and […]
Tacony Creek flows in an east direction from its headwaters area through Glenside to the SEPTA Lansdale Regional Rail line, near the SPS technologies plant, and then turns to flow in a south-southeast direction between Jenkintown and Wyncote. The turn from flowing in an east direction to flowing in a south-southeast direction is here referred […]
Tacony Creek originates as Tookany Creek just south of the Westminster Theological Seminary in Laverock and flows in an east direction on a route just north of the Arcadia University campus into and then through Glenside to reach its Jenkintown elbow of capture near the SEPTA West Trenton and Landsdale Regional Rail line junction located […]
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