The Latchmore Brook is a significant stream in the
New Forest,
Hampshire,
England. It rises from the elevated gravel plateaus in the north of the Forest, north of
Fritham, and drains into the
River Avon north of
Ibsley.
The stream's catchment is open
heathland,
deciduous woodland,
silvicultural
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inclosures and, in its lower reaches, small scale pastoral farmland; as such there are no consistent sources of pollution and the stream's course and character has largely remained free from artificial modification. Historically, the greatest human impact on the brook was connected to the
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*Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (1827–1919), German gynecologist
*Charles Schultze (1924–2016), U.S. economist
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which was established in the 1860s at Eyeworth Lodge near
Fritham. The factory required large volumes of water and this demand was met by damming the brook to create a reservoir (which still survives as
Eyeworth Pond). The problem of sulphuric and nitric acid discharges contaminating the river, killing fish, only ended when the factory closed in the 1920s.
New Forest
Rivers of Hampshire
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