The Aylesford Stream is a 5.4 kilometreThe Environment Agency
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tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drai ...

of the East Stour, itself a tributary of the

Great Stour Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

. The stream's source is north of the M20, between

Wye with Hinxhill Wye with Hinxhill is a hillside civil parish in the borough of Ashford northeast of Ashford, Kent itself, centred 3.7 miles (6.0 km) NNE of the town centre. The North Downs range of hills has a high escarpment on the east and west borders of the ...

and West Brabourne, and runs through

Willesborough Willesborough is a village, now in effect a residential suburb, on the eastern side of Ashford, Kent, England. The area The South Willesborough Dykes area, on the west bank of the River East Stour, is an area of sheep fields drained by dykes. ...

and then between Newtown and South Willesborough to join the East Stour just west of Ashford Designer Outlet. The area along the stream forms part of a Local Nature Reserve, the Ashford Green Corridor, with pollarded willows adjacent to ''Bentley Road'' in Willesborough. Part of the area is designated as the South Willesborough Dykes, a

Site of Nature Conservation Interest Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI), Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC) and regionally important geological site (RIGS) are designations used by local authorities in the United Kingdom for sites of substantive local nature ...

(SNCI). The dykes continue on the east side of the East Stour and amongst the residential areas. When High Speed 1 was built through Ashford, the stream was diverted to run alongside the railway line.Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996
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{{authority control Rivers of Kent Borough of Ashford