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Law Brook, Surrey

Stream in Surrey, England

Field	Value
name	Law Brook
name_other	Postford Brook
image	Brook, Brook - geograph.org.uk - 655936.jpg
image_caption	Law Brook flowing westwards from the hamlet of Brook towards Postford
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	England
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	Surrey
subdivision_type4	Borough
subdivision_name4	Guildford Borough
length_km	7
discharge1_location	Albury
discharge1_min	0.05 m3/s(4 August 1992)
discharge1_avg	0.11 m3/s
discharge1_max	0.8 m3/s(15 September 1968)
source1	Gasson Farm, The Hurtwood and sources in Peaslake proper
source1_location	Peaslake, Shere, Borough of Guildford
source1_coordinates
source1_elevation	148 m
mouth	River Tillingbourne
mouth_location	Colyers Hanger, Albury (foot), Borough of Guildford
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	50 m
progression	Postford/Law Brook—Tillingbourne—River Wey—River Thames
river_system	Thames Basin

The Law Brook or Postford Brook is a stream in the Surrey Hills AONB which feeds the Tillingbourne which in turn feeds the River Wey. It is notable in its own right chiefly for its industrial vestiges and records.

Course

The stream runs, WNW then north, about 7 km in the Vale of Holmesdale (a mainly geological term explaining the axis of the basins of the Medway, Mole, Tillingbourne and Wey, west branch). It mainly rises in the former manor farms and common land of Peaslake on the northern slopes of the Greensand Ridge. It drains much of the northern Winterfold Forest/Hurtwood: the upper half of the drainage basin is forest with some pasture save for the large hamlet itself. The stream waters the clustered village of Brook/Little London in Albury. On the left bank the stream has, after its coalescence of headwaters, the northern lands of Farley Green (the secondary village in Albury parish) then briefly a low corner of Blackheath, Wonersh – a sparsely inhabited wooded plateau, on the opposite bank of the closest-to-village fields of Albury's main settlement, including a further former millhouse.

The last 500 m demarcates the land (parish) of Albury from St Martha, centred on Chilworth. It and the Tillingbourne were harnessed by digging leats (narrow cuts) and mill ponds for industrial mills – the Royal Gunpowder Mills, a long leat dividing Chilworth and supplying its largest pond, known today as The Fish Pond.

The North Downs Line follows a distant right bank of the Brook for 1.8 km along the width of Albury's essentially rectangular parish.

References

(2008). "UK Hydrometric Register". Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
(2000). "Damnable Inventions: Chilworth Gunpowder and the Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne". Surrey Industrial History Group.
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/search/?lat=51.2&lon=-0.5 Church of England, parish maps, A Church Near You
[http://www.royalgunpowdermills.com/GEHG/GMSGNewsletter24_webp.pdf Royal Gunpower Mills] Newsletter 24. Accessed 2015-04-10.

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