Law Brook, Surrey

Law Brook
Postford Brook
Law Brook; Postford Brook
	Law Brook flowing westwards from the hamlet of Brook towards Postford
Location
Country	England
County	Surrey
Borough	Guildford Borough
Physical characteristics
Source	Gasson Farm, The Hurtwood and sources in Peaslake proper
• location	Peaslake, Shere, Borough of Guildford
• coordinates	51°11′02″N 0°26′38″W / 51.18389°N 0.44389°W
• elevation	148 m (486 ft)
Mouth	River Tillingbourne
• location	Colyers Hanger, Albury (foot), Borough of Guildford
• coordinates	51°13′20″N 0°31′00″W / 51.22222°N 0.51667°WCoordinates: 51°13′20″N 0°31′00″W / 51.22222°N 0.51667°W
• elevation	50 m (160 ft)
Length	7 km (4.3 mi)
Discharge
• location	Albury
• average	0.11 m3/s (3.9 cu ft/s)
• minimum	0.05 m3/s (1.8 cu ft/s)(4 August 1992)
• maximum	0.8 m3/s (28 cu ft/s)(15 September 1968)
Basin features
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 (4.3 mi) 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.^[1]

The last 500 m (550 yd) demarcates the land (parish) of Albury from St Martha, centred on Chilworth.^[2]^[3] 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.^[4]

The North Downs Line follows a distant right bank of the Brook for 1.8 km (1.1 mi) along the width of Albury's essentially rectangular parish.

References[]

^ ^a ^b Marsh, T; Hannaford, J, eds. (2008). UK Hydrometric Register (PDF). Hydrological data UK series. Wallingford, Oxfordshire: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. ISBN 978-0-9557672-2-7.
^ Crocker, Glenys; Crocker, Alan (2000). Damnable Inventions: Chilworth Gunpowder and the Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne. Guildford: Surrey Industrial History Group. pp. 1–3. ISBN 0-9538122-0-0.
^ https://www.achurchnearyou.com/search/?lat=51.2&lon=-0.5 Church of England, parish maps, A Church Near You
^ Royal Gunpower Mills Newsletter 24. Accessed 2015-04-10.

[CEH-1] Marsh, T; Hannaford, J, eds. (2008). UK Hydrometric Register (PDF). Hydrological data UK series. Wallingford, Oxfordshire: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. ISBN 978-0-9557672-2-7.

[Crocker-2] Crocker, Glenys; Crocker, Alan (2000). Damnable Inventions: Chilworth Gunpowder and the Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne. Guildford: Surrey Industrial History Group. pp. 1–3. ISBN 0-9538122-0-0.

[3] ttps://www.achurchnearyou.com/search/?lat=51.2&lon=-0.5 Church of England, parish maps, A Church Near You

[4] Royal Gunpower Mills Newsletter 24. Accessed 2015-04-10.

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v t Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
North Downs	Botley Hill Box Hill Colley Hill Combe Bottom Gatton Park Hackhurst and White Downs Hog's Back Mole Gap to Reigate Escarpment Newlands Corner Norbury Park Ranmore Common Seale Chalk Pit Woldingham and Oxted Downs
Greensand Ridge	Albury Heath Blackheath Common Colyers Hanger Devil's Jumps Devil's Punch Bowl Frensham Common Gibbet Hill Gong Hill Hankley Common Hankley Farm Holmbury Hill Leith Hill Moor Park Oxmoor Copse Puttenham and Crooksbury Commons St Martha's Hill Stockstone Quarry Thursley Common Winterfold Forest Witley Common Wotton Common
Low Weald	Brook Brick Pit Chiddingfold Forest Netherside Stream Outcrops
Rivers	Law Brook Mole Ock Pipp Brook Tillingbourne Wey
Lakes and ponds	Busbridge Lakes Frensham Ponds Silent Pool
Long-distance paths	Downs Link Greensand Way Mole Gap Trail North Downs Way Thames Down Link Vanguard Way Wey South Path
National Cycle Routes	NCR21 NCR22

v t Hydrology of Surrey
Main rivers	River Blackwater River Colne Cranleigh Waters River Mole River Ock River Thames River Tillingbourne River Wey
Canals and Navigations	Basingstoke Canal Wey and Arun Canal Wey and Godalming Navigations
Ordinary watercourses	Abbey River River Ash River Bourne, Addlestone River Bourne, Chertsey Cobblers Brook River Eden River Ember Hogsmill River Law Brook Pipp Brook The Rye The Rythe Windle Brook Wish Stream Wraysbury River
Lakes, ponds and wetlands	Busbridge Lakes Claremont Landscape Garden Enton Lakes Frensham Ponds Gatton Park Goldsworth Park Hedgecourt Henfold Lakes Kempton Park Racecourse Lakeside Leisure Complex McLaren Technology Centre Mercers Country Park Painshill Sherbourne Pond Silent Pool Papercourt Marshes Sheepwalk Lake Silvermere Sutton Place Thorpe Park No 1 Gravel Pit Virginia Water Lake Winkworth Arboretum
Reservoirs	Bessborough Reservoir Island Barn Reservoir Kempton Park Reservoirs King George VI Reservoir Knight Reservoir Molesey Reservoirs Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir Queen Mary Reservoir Queen Mother Reservoir Stain Hill Reservoirs Staines Reservoirs Sunnyside Reservoir Wraysbury Reservoir
Categories: Rivers, Canals