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Industrial Estate. It is then joined by an unnamed stream which originates from a spring in Hollinsend Park. After 1 mile (1.5 km) it passes under the A6135 (Birley Moor Road) and swings easterly, disappearing underground, as it flows for almost 0.6 miles (1 km) through a culvert beneath the former
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sickleworks in
Hackenthorpe. The dam at Rainbow Forge no longer holds water and its embankments and stonework are difficult to find amongst the undergrowth. Carr Forge Dam is the best preserved area of water in the valley although its wheel and cottages have now vanished. The site of the Lower Sickle
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was established in 1999 and extends over an area of approximately 100 hectares. The reserve is based around the former site of the
Coisley Hill Sewage Works which closed in the early 1990s. The managers office has been converted into a visitors centre. The reserve includes Beighton Marsh, an area of
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that large amounts of coal were extracted. Birley West
Colliery was located just to the south of Normanton Spring, production lasted from 1855 until 1908. Birley East, situated between Hackenthorpe and Woodhouse opened in 1888 and operated until 1948. Shire Brook was culverted under both locations
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Seagrave Crescent and Lister Crescent. It initially flows NE going beneath housing to emerge on the Jaunty Park recreation and sports grounds as an insignificant and rubbish strewn stream running at the rear of the Birley
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Sheffield. The Reserve contain Carr Forge Dam which is fed by the stream which comes down from Birley Spa and is a valuable location for wildlife. New ponds were created in the same area in 1993 to mark the centenary of the City of Sheffield. The Centenary Ponds were opened by
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at a height of 330 feet (100 m) above sea level, flowing NE down a gorge for a kilometre to the Shire Brook valley. The Shire Brook then disappears underground again as it runs beneath the former
Beighton Road landfill site just to the north of Beighton before entering an area of
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Beighton Marsh. The final 220 yards (200 m) of Shire Brook’s journey before it joins the Rother is again through an underground culvert beneath the site of the former Woodhouse Junction railway
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were fined £5,000 plus costs when pumps failed at the Linley Bank Sewage
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National Engineering Centre before plans were rejected in April 2008. Shire Brook enters the River Rother at a height of 121 feet (37 m) above sea level at approximately
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landfill site which has now been landscaped and planted with trees. The brook emerges and continues its journey east going through Wickfield Heath and under the
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44:, England. It rises in the suburb of Gleadless Townend and flows in a general easterly direction for 4 miles (6.5 km) to its confluence with the
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Dike, due to the run off from mines in the valley which made the water a yellow brown colour.
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460:, Shire Brook Valley Heritage Group,
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16:Waterway in South Yorkshire, England
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546:History in the Shire Brook Valley
519:"Walks in the Shire Brook Valley"
498:Gleadless: From Village To Suburb
458:Shire Brook: The Forgotten Valley
140:on the northern side of the A57.
36:in the south eastern part of the
722:Minor rivers, streams and brooks
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123:. The Brook runs in a
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333:Local Nature Reserve
1472:Rivers of Sheffield
875:Rivers of Yorkshire
804:Sheffield Lane Dike
652:Rivers in Sheffield
478:Sheffield A–Z Guide
342:grasshopper warbler
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759:Hartley Brook Dike
604:The Sheffield Star
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973:Greta (Lune)
933:Crimple Beck
834:Wyming Brook
829:Totley Brook
819:Storrs Brook
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1396:Meers Brook
1325:Trent Falls
1300:Hedon Haven
1295:Gypsey Race
1214:Pudsey Beck
1184:Harden Beck
1159:Black Brook
1073:Skeeby Beck
1008:Malham Beck
978:Gypsey Race
903:Bedale Beck
809:Shire Brook
799:Robin Brook
789:Owler Brook
774:Meers Brook
734:Bagley Dike
708:River Sheaf
394:storm drain
382:Clive Betts
302:coal mining
227:Northumbria
219:Anglo-Saxon
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32:is a small
30:Shire Brook
1386:Little Don
1381:Limb Brook
1275:Arram Beck
1199:Holme Beck
988:Hodge Beck
958:Eller Beck
923:Costa Beck
893:Arkle Beck
779:Ochre Dyke
769:Limb Brook
754:Ewden Beck
749:Carr Brook
729:Allen Sike
658:Main river
410:References
358:Birley Spa
354:water vole
258:Canterbury
250:Mosborough
235:Derbyshire
172:53°21′22″N
145:Birley Spa
99:53°20′41″N
62:Canterbury
1330:West Beck
1265:Aike Beck
1249:Wyke Beck
1169:Cock Beck
913:Cock Beck
666:River Don
388:Pollution
231:Yorkshire
175:1°20′22″W
102:1°25′32″W
1466:Category
1356:Cheswold
1290:Foulness
1204:Laneshaw
1118:Washburn
1088:Skirfare
1018:Oak Beck
983:Hertford
918:Cod Beck
713:The Moss
610:6 August
374:coppiced
346:barn owl
134:A57 road
74:landfill
70:culverts
50:Beighton
48:between
1411:Rivelin
1376:Ea Beck
1280:Derwent
1123:Wenning
1058:Sea Cut
1043:Riccall
938:Derwent
286:sickles
282:scythes
208:History
155:sidings
150:wetland
125:culvert
1416:Rother
1391:Loxley
1361:Dearne
1310:Humber
1239:Wharfe
1224:Ryburn
1219:Ribble
1179:Dearne
1164:Calder
1128:Wharfe
1038:Ribble
504:
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356:. The
223:Mercia
86:spring
80:Course
34:stream
1436:Torne
1426:Sheaf
1421:Ryton
1244:Worth
1194:Holme
1174:Colne
1133:Wiske
1108:Twiss
1093:Swale
1078:Skell
1068:Seven
1003:Leven
928:Cover
370:heath
271:Tudor
239:Ochre
1446:Went
1371:Dove
1320:Ouse
1305:Hull
1270:Aire
1229:Spen
1149:Aire
1103:Tutt
1098:Tees
1063:Seph
1023:Ouse
1013:Nidd
998:Kyle
968:Foss
953:Dove
943:Dibb
908:Burn
898:Bain
888:Aire
612:2018
502:ISBN
482:ISBN
462:ISBN
372:and
352:and
344:and
284:and
256:and
254:York
248:and
233:and
225:and
66:York
64:and
58:sees
52:and
1366:Don
1113:Ure
1053:Rye
963:Esk
948:Doe
377:oak
60:of
40:in
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602:.
418:^
340:,
260:.
196:.
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861:t
854:v
645:e
638:t
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