William Dargue  A History of BIRMINGHAM Places & Placenames from A to Y

Brook Vale

B23 - Grid reference - SP088918


A location shown on the 1890 Ordnance Survey map below Upper Witton Lakes where Gipsy Lane meets Marsh Hill. The brook is Hawthorn Brook which rises on the high ground west of Sutton Park and runs down to Witton and Brookvale Lakes before joining the River Tame near Spaghetti Junction.

 

See Brookvale.

 

William Dargue 31.07.2010/ 22.10.2012

 


Hawthorn Brook at Brook Vale, looking north. Click here to go to the Google Maps website.
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For 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps of Birmingham go to British History Online.

See http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55137&sheetid=8340&ox=2584&oy=448&zm=2&czm=2&x=374&y=303 

and http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55193&sheetid=10083&ox=391&oy=1176&zm=1&czm=1&x=562&y=145.