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John Keats spent some of his last days in England here, as did Rupert Brooke.

It was created on the site of an 18th-century house with 18 acres of private parkland by Barbourne Brook.

The long line of cottages in Winkle Street overlooks a delightful babbling brook.

Herrington's window (right) is a treasure-trove of 1960s grocery products: Lyons Swiss Rolls, Brooke Bond Tea, Woodbines, and Bev. It later became the NatWest Bank.

Oakham CC have a fine ground at the Lime Kilns Field, Brooke Road, which was extended to county size.

So wrote the poet Rupert Brooke about Grantchester's mill. The river may well be immortal, but the mill certainly was not. It burned down in 1928.

Whirlow Brook House was formerly the home of Sir Walter Benton Jones.

This view is from Odney Common, an island along the north side of one of the channels, here named Lulle Brook. This view south is little changed, apart from a footbridge in the middle distance.

Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout'.

Wallop means 'valley of the stream,' and if we look closely we can just see the Wallop brook on the left of the road.

A walk through the countryside around Uplyme often takes you as much into Dorset as Devon, for the county border weaves around the ridges, woods and tiny brooks of the locality.

We are standing on the small brick-parapeted bridge over the Walthambury Brook.

The old coaching inn, half way down Brook Street on the left, had the unusual name of the Farmer's Man. It has since closed, and is now called Farmers Man Cottage.

The long line of cottages in Winkle Street overlooks a delightful babbling brook.

This view looks up Olde Barn Passage past Brookes Court. In the distance is Richman's and St Mary's Street.

Since this picture was taken the trees around the church have grown, and it cannot be seen from this tree by the brook.

The fountain in Brook Street (left) was installed in 1861 by Henry Smith of Bardfield Hall. It pumped water from a spring in Hall Meadows.

Earlier in its life it had more publicity, as it is also known as Tennyson's brook.

The village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook.

After a fire new premises were built on the site, called The Windle Brook.

The rustic bridge parapets over the brook also look like John Hicks's work.

The rustic bridge parapets over the brook also look like John Hicks's work.

The hotel grounds are impressive too, with woodland and the large mill pond which the Websters created to increase the power supply of Plants Brook.

Its location at the entrance to Brook Lane is a mixed blessing.