Dinckley Brook is a minor

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. The stream rises at the confluence of several minor watercourses at Wheatley Farm close to

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and flows northwards, through Cunliffe House Wood and under Dinckley Bridge (near to where it meets Park Brook). The brook continues past Brockhall, Great Wood and Bradyll, continuing past the Brockhall training base of

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and through Mill Wood. Soon afterwards, Dinckley Brook falls into the

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Tributaries

Park Brook joins Dinckley Brook close to Dinckley Bridge. The source of this stream is at Showley Fold Farm, where Showley Brook is joined by Tottering Brook (travelling east from Hawkshaw Fold, just east of

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) and Zechariah Brook (moving north from Hillside at "Top of

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"). Showley Brook itself drains

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, moving westwards. It is fed at Wilpshire by Knotts Brook, which itself feeds Parsonage Reservoir.

References

* https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3150824 Link to photo of Dinckley Brook and Dinckley Bridge * http://ru.globio.travel/details/Dinckley-Brook/4dc0208c2e59da44d0eaedd8 Link to Globio Travel Site Rivers of Ribble Valley {{Lancashire-geo-stub