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The Lulle Brook in the view is the third and southernmost channel.

In the 1820s Dobcross possessed two banks (Buckley & Co and Harrop & Co), while Delph supported an agent for the Genuine Tea Co (John Brook), an attorney (Jonas Ainley), and an auctioneer (Timothy Bradbury

The Mill C1960 Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout'.

Houses in the village today include April Cottage, Brook Cottage, Kiddles, Little Beck, Pound Cottage, Pound House, Trout Cottage and Rowan Cottage.

In the chapter house is the tomb of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke.

The Brooke Bond van outside is presumably visiting the adjacent grocer`s, Luckin & Sons. This shop still has the family name up, though it currently seems to be full of soft toys.

Below the Sugar Loaf on the western outskirts of Abergavenny stands Nevill Court, previously named The Brooks. It was re-named by William Nevill, Marquess of Abergavenny, when he bought it in 1890.

To the left is Arthur Brook's glass and china shop.

The city council also continued to acquire new parkland through gift and purchase, for example Millhouses Park in 1909, Bingham Park between 1911 and 1927, Graves Park in 1925 and Whirlow Brook

It was at this junction that poet Rupert Brooke stopped his horse-drawn caravan in 1910 to make a speech on Poor Law reform.

Below the Sugar Loaf on the western outskirts of Abergavenny stands Nevill Court, previously named The Brooks.

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.

Entering the village from Clitheroe, the road dips to cross Heys Brook. Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855.

As with so many East Devon villages, a tiny stream - the Beer Brook - runs down the main street, first on one side of the road and then on the other.

The setting is very pretty too, with the Downs rising on one side and the Amberley Wild Brooks, a haven for wildlife, on the other.

According to the chronicles of the time, the brook alongside the green ran red with blood.

We are in a marshy area—Amberley Wild Brooks, beside the tidal and navigable River Arun.The castle was a fortified manor of the Bishops of Chichester; it was crenellated c1377 to defend the coastal

Sunnyhurst Wood is a Nature Reserve; Sunnyhurst Brook runs through it to join the River Darwen that gave the town its name.

This point - where Grace's Walk crosses Sandon Brook - has a ghost-story attached to it: Lady Alice Mildmay (d1615), child-bride of Sir Henry, supposedly drowned herself in a pond here after he was unkind

The North Brook runs beneath this historic building and was known to flood.

Mr C H Elkes, a local businessman, offered an eleven-acre field sloping down to the Picknall or Hockley Brook. The recreation ground was opened in 1925.

By the time it was bought by Sir George Samuel Brooke Pechell in 1867, it had become Alton House. The family remained here for about 30 years before moving to Culverton House.

The first two shops in the next building were owned by Arthur Brook, glass and china dealer. Agricultural implements are laid out for sale - it is Saturday, market day.

The name means 'the clearing where the waters meet', the waters being the Calder and the Cragg Brook.