The Cranleigh Waters or Bramley Wey is a tributary of the

River Wey The River Wey is a main tributary of the River Thames in south east England. Its two branches, one of which rises near Alton in Hampshire and the other in West Sussex to the south of Haslemere, join at Tilford in Surrey. Once combined the f ...

in Surrey.

Course

The Cranleigh Waters or Bramley Wey rises at a source close to the sources of two tributaries, the Thornhurst Brook and Coneyhurst Gill in the rural north of

Cranleigh Cranleigh is a village and civil parish, about southeast of Guildford in Surrey, England. It lies on a minor road east of the A281, which links Guildford with Horsham. It is in the north-west corner of the Weald, a large remnant forest, the ma ...

, each flowing initially southwestwards to Vachery Pond, before turning to run northwards as the border of

Wonersh Wonersh is a village and civil parish in the Waverley district of Surrey, England and Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Wonersh contains three Conservation Areas and spans an area three to six miles SSE of Guildford. In the o ...

and Bramley to meet the Wey at Shalford.OS Map of English Heritage Listed Buildings and Parks and Gardens Database
From the Vachery Pond to the Wey, Cranleigh Waters is closely paralleled by the disused

Wey and Arun Canal The Wey and Arun Canal is a partially open, 23-mile-long (37 km) canal in the southeast of England. It runs southwards from the River Wey at Gunsmouth in Shalford, Surrey to the River Arun at Pallingham, in West Sussex. The canal compri ...

, which crosses the river at Gosden Aqueduct.

Other tributaries

Cobblers Brook

The Cobblers Brook also rises in the

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as three headwaters in the north of Ewhurst and drains that

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entirely southwards, before flowing west via the

Baynards Park Baynards Park is a estate and site of a demolished country house with extant outbuildings, privately owned, in the south of the parishes of Cranleigh and Ewhurst, Surrey. History In 1447 William Sydney the younger obtained a licence to imp ...

estate in Cranleigh into the Vachery Pond.

Unnamed streams in Walliswood

A central natural

drainage divide A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins. On rugged land, the divide lies along topographical ridges, and may be in the form of a singl ...

cuts off the rural west and south of the Walliswood

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of Abinger, Surrey from the rest of it. This part has three unnamed streams which drain a small fraction of the long north–south oriented parish (lying east of Ewhurst) and flow into the Cobblers Brook in the far south of Ewhurst.

Named left tributaries

These eight left tributaries (when looking downstream in the conventional way) are considerably shorter than the three principal right tributaries and drain a portion of

Dunsfold Dunsfold is a village in the borough of Waverley, Surrey, England, 8.7 miles (14 kilometres) south of Guildford. It lies in the Weald and reaches in the north the southern escarpment of the Greensand Ridge. It includes the Wey and Arun Canal ...

and almost all of Bramley (parishes). They are separated from the River Wey (south branch) by a western high and wide outcrop of the

Water quality

The Environment Agency measures the water quality of the river systems in England. Each is given an overall ecological status, which may be one of five levels: high, good, moderate, poor and bad. There are several components that are used to determine this, including biological status, which looks at the quantity and varieties of

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s and fish. Chemical status, which compares the concentrations of various chemicals against known safe concentrations, is rated good or fail. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a
Open Government Licence v3.0
© Crown copyright. Water quality of the Cranleigh Waters in 2019:

References

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