Duloe Brook is a minor, roughly 9 km (5.59 mi) long

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

(or

brook A brook is a small river or natural stream of fresh water. It may also refer to: Computing *Brook, a programming language for GPU programming based on C *Brook+, an explicit data-parallel C compiler *BrookGPU, a framework for GPGPU programming ...

) in

Bedfordshire Bedfordshire (; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. The county has been administered by three unitary authorities, Borough of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Borough of Luton, since Bedfordshire County Council wa ...

that is a

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 drainage ...

to the

River Great Ouse The River Great Ouse () is a river in England, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse". From Syresham in Northamptonshire, the Great Ouse flows through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to drain into the Wa ...

. The brook rises in the hamlet of

Keysoe Row Keysoe Row is a hamlet located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. The settlement is located to the south of the village of Keysoe, and is part of the wider Bolnhurst and Keysoe civil parish In England, a civil parish is a ...

and flows southwards then eastwards towards the village of

Staploe Staploe is a village and civil parish located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. Staploe was originally a hamlet of Eaton Socon. Under the Local Government Act 1958, Eaton Socon was merged with the neighbouring town of St Neots ...

and hamlet of Duloe, before flowing into the River Great Ouse at the village of

Eaton Ford Eaton Ford is an area of St Neots, Cambridgeshire, England. It is a mainly residential area also containing Riverside Park, a large area of riverside parkland. Much of the housing stock dates from the period of London overspill during the 1960s an ...

St Neots St NeotsPronunciation of the town name: Most commonly, but variations that ''saint'' is said as in most English non-georeferencing speech, the ''t'' is by a small minority of the British pronounced and higher traces of in the final syllable ...

. Its last half kilometre or so denotes the boundary between Eaton Ford and

Eaton Socon Eaton Socon is a community in south-west Cambridgeshire. Eaton Socon is a component of the town of St Neots, located on its south-west margin. Eaton Socon lies on the west side of the River Great Ouse, and is bounded on the west by the A1 ro ...

.Huntingdon and St Neots: New Boundaries 2018 Calculation
''Electoral Calculus''. Retrieved 6 December 2021.

References

Rivers of Bedfordshire Tributaries of the River Great Ouse {{England-river-stub